When the New Deal was young, Franklin Roosevelt used to bask in the warmth of as friendly a press as any President ever had. Gradually that honeymoon waned. Papers began to criticize various New Deal measures editorially, and the President began to take cracks at publishers. Reporters who asked pointed questions were lectured by a Roosevelt who did not smile. New Deal lieutenants like Harold Ickes (who last year wrote a book damning newsmen as America's House of Lords) attacked the press as a tool of Big Business.
Last week the New Deal, after holding ils fire all summer, once more turned...
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