Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear up all misunderstandings at press conferences the President issued what amounted to style book for White House newshawks. It divided all Presidential utterances into four categories: Back ground Remarks which can be directly attributed to the President but in the third person, without quotation marks; Direct Quotations for the occasional phrase, sentence or statement which he announces can be put in direct quotes; Non-attributable Information, dope the press can put out under any brand name that does not indicate its source; Off the Record, secrets, no fair telling under any pretext...
Emerging from Valencia, the Leftist Capital, Correspondent William F. McDermott of North American Newspaper Alliance added his bit last week to uncensored lore of Spain's Civil War. "I should guess, on the basis of what is clear to the eyes here," he jotted in his notebook before leaving Valencia, "that a Franco victory will result in the creation of the most radical Fascist State that the world has known. A Valencia victory is similarly likely to end in the institution of a Communistic State that will make Russia look like a haven of economic royalists. No one talks...
...immeasurably astonished to find that some of these documents of a decadent art ... were still being exhibited until a few days ago in the public galleries. . . . Whole railroad trains would not have been enough to clear this rubbish out of the German museums. This has yet to be done and will be done very shortly. . . . One can say that everything that is holy to a decent German necessarily had to be trampled in the mud here...
...habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three-day event, each contestant fired 468 arrows at distances from 40 to 100 yards (two York...
...mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions, Lawyer Liebowitz' court successes came so unbelievably as to make him appear hypnotic. The hardest case he ever had, the Max Becker prison riot murder in 1930, seemed so clear-cut against his client that when the jury brought in its verdict of not guilty, Liebowitz fainted...