Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columnist Raymond Clapper said: "The best provincial political drama of the year ... a drama of flesh and blue blood...
...portrait of her own little self, the much advertised "Ann Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained about the same...
...wheels of his machine turning before he had adequately manned the controls. Result was that when he returned to Chicago late last month he found things in a serious mess. Presenting the other side of Pundit Lawrence's picture, Scripps-Howard's Columnist Raymond Clapper reported from Chicago: "A vast organization, scattered among three office buildings, had been thrown together hastily. No one was in authority. Co-ordinate heads of divisions were glaring at each other like strange wildcats. They were quarreling over matters of jurisdiction. Campaign literature was being held up by inability to get final okays...
Equally caustic were other newshawks' comments. Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper: "So far as the White House reporters can learn officially there is no political campaign on, or if there is, Mr. Roosevelt isn't running for office...
...World-Telegram soon developed into Mayor LaGuardia's most vigilant critic. And so have Scripps-Howard papers recently delivered stinging attacks against certain aspects of the New Deal, largely through Columnists Raymond Clapper and Westbrook Pegler. Publisher Howard went on record in 1932 as a friend of the New Deal's "principles," chiefly because he believes that they alone are sufficiently resilient to give but not shatter under the pressure of what he sees as a world-wide Leftward swing. Does his present critical attitude indicate that he has fundamentally changed his mind about Roosevelt & Co.? Last week...