Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unmarried girl over 18 may go unchaperoned to the theatre with a man, even to dinner in his apartment if it will not stir comment in her circle. She no longer leans upon a man's arm in the city, may invite him to a game or the theatre...
Under zestful Melville Elijah Stone for 25 years, the accent of AP was on straight news. But because of the changing needs of its member newspapers AP gradually added comics, comment, cookery, other "features." One offering, used regularly by over 100 of the 1,400 dailies, is "Washington Daybook," launched eight years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this...
...young Miners Wingfield and Nixon borrowed $1,000,000 from Banker Bernard Baruch. Last week when greying George Wingfield, heavy with his 61 years, stood once more on the brink of a successful mine, rumors were abroad in Reno that Bernard Baruch had helped again. "King George" refused to comment. Said Senator Getchell last week: "We now stand a good chance of making a million or so each...
Meanwhile, in Cannes Mayor Nouveau reiterated his story: ". . . I regret to say I am certain now it was Mr. Roosevelt." Upshot of the Cannes Battle of Flowers was a deluge of French editorials, night-club skits and radio songs; in the U. S. a comment by John Roosevelt's mother...
...content with this caustic comment. Professor Wieland promptly fired the following original composition at Mr. Ickes...