A frequently updated compendium of quotes about the Guild, from 1933 to today:

"Have you a Newspaper Guild here? You ought to have one. That's the way you are going to get things -- organize!"

-- General Hugh S. Johnson, FDR's head of the National Recovery Administration, during a conversation with Atlanta "newsmen" in 1933. (Photo: Gen. Johnson on cover of Time as 1933 Man of the Year)

"It is a pleasure to meet with a group which plays so vital a part in upholding the American tradition of a free and responsible press." 

-- U.S. President Harry Truman, addressing the 1950 Guild convention in Washington, D.C.