Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however give a brief outline of his activities during his five weeks vacation. After leaving the boat he spent a week at Beaulieu in the south of England, and for the next two weeks he rented a car and drove down the coast...
Primarily a picture paper, the News's brief, breezy coverage of political news has, in a campaign marked by biased reporting, been comparatively impartial. To compensate for New Deal slanting, Publisher Patterson made a notable contribution to political journalism. Early last summer he announced that, for the remainder of the campaign, the News would daily donate the full page opposite the editorial page to the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Each camp could present whatever it liked in the way of argument, invective, cartoon; the News would print their contributions side by side without altering so much...
Notable fence-sitters are the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune. Last week the Independent Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer slid off its fence with a brief editorial declaring: "We prefer Mr. Roosevelt because his philosophy of government is attuned to what we regard as inevitable social and economic trends...
...Willever has been with Western Union longer than any man now in active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night Letter to his company. Mr. Vail let him have his way, added the Day Letter himself. The service was a great success. Since then...
...story of his theatrical successes, presented him as a liberal, good-natured individual, was of literary significance only for its few glimpses of A. E. Housman and of the family background of the brothers. More light on the character of the poet was to be found in a brief sketch, primarily devoted to A. E. Housman's achievements as a scholar, by one of his Cambridge associates. Seventy-two of the 137 pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder describe his early failures in Latin...