Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stumping in Scranton, Pa. last week, Ambassador to Poland John Cudahy charged the bulk of the press with suppressing news favorable to the New Deal, asserted that "85% of the newspapers north of the Mason & Dixon line are controlled by supporters of the Republican Party...
...Prussia only. To him Chancellor Hitler gave authority "to issue decrees and general administrative instructions" to "all administrative organs, including the highest Reich administration, all offices of the Party and its subordinate organizations or associated institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring that his enormous bulk seemed almost to loom over small Hitler, but the mystic Führer has long toyed with notions of betaking himself upward to a status in which his title of Leader would be as Olympian and detached from responsibility for details as that of Emperor...
There are two general types of pecan, the native varieties which comprise from 85% to 90% of the annual crop, and the improved, or so-called papershell, varieties which have been grafted or selected from natives for transplanting and cultivation. Pecans grow in 37 states but eleven produce the bulk of the crop. No. 1 pecan State is Texas, whose State tree is the pecan. Native pecans are also plentiful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the improved varieties reach the market from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina where tourists find almost as many pecan venders...
...stand in Philadelphia has been a throne for Leopold Stokowski. Last winter King Stokowski decided that he wanted more time for "research," more personal freedom than a conductor's routine duties permit. Result was that the Philadelphia Orchestra authorities had to choose another conductor for the bulk of this season, picked Eugene Ormandy, 36, pale, small, blond Hungarian who for the past four years has been leader of the Minneapolis Symphony...
...conclusion. One Rogers C. Dunn, the Herald Tribune story went on to relate, having investigated the politics of every newspaper in the land (except those in six States which he conceded to the Democrats), had found that in 33 States representing 377 electoral votes (266 needed to win), the bulk of newspaper circulation belongs to Republican sheets. Mr. Dunn's thesis is that newspapers so accurately reflect and so strongly influence their readers, that the paper a man or woman buys is a declaration of the ticket he or she will vote. Without releasing any local poll and circulation...