Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When newspapers were in infancy, in infancy which knows no morals, they made no distinction between advertising and news. For pay or for influence, they advertised in the form of news whatever they chose. Now the larger papers, having acquired a sense of responsibility to their readers, sedulously rule out of their news columns all advertisements. This led to the development of press agents, who manufactured news that would render incidental advertisement. With a detective eye the best newspapers watch and reject this stuff...
...head following the Cleveland Convention. But the Convention was only its immediate cause. Its ultimate cause lay further back, in the selection by Mr. Coolidge of his political advisers. At the beginning, the President had Frank W. Stearns, Boston business man, whose hobby is politics. Next, the President chose C. Bascom Slemp as his Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge selected (by and with...
...President. The Secretary's feelings can be imagined. His accumulated political wisdom had in no small degree been responsible for Mr. Coolidge's nomination. Quietly he had led the southern delegations into the Coolidge fold. He had wrought to give political power to the President, and now Mr. Coolidge chose to entrust that power to a man who not only went contrary to Mr. Slemp's opinions but obviously had bungled in part. On top of this an editorial appeared in The Washington Post ?believed to be from the acrid pen of George Harvey?in which it was intimated...
...probabilities are that such meetings and public hearings will not take place until August or September when the campaign is well under way. As a subject for intervening meditation, the Committee chose the question of whether it has power to investigate expenditures made last Spring in primary campaigns...
...glaring indictment. It carried the inference that the party which opposed the Klan could win the support of half the people in the country. But the Republican Party was unpersuaded. It chose to temporize and inserted a plank of no particular meaning...