Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile it became evident last week that all was not well within the tight little circle of correspondents who cover the White House and report the President, under rules of his own making, to the country. To Manhattan to address the National Republican Club went Correspondent Krock-"Arthur"' to the Presi-dent-of the great New York Times. As befitted the No. i Washington man of an independent Democratic paper, Arthur Krock attempted to present a first-hand nonpartisan picture of White House press relations. Yet before he had done he spoke in a way that may well have...
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From the sidelines in San Antonio, Tex., a broadside called Frente á Frente ("Face to Face")* last week let loose an inkpot of rage against Boss Calles and his henchman Aaron Saenz, Governor of Mexico's Federal District. Its cover was a foot-and-a-half high cartoon of Calles as a redhanded, man-eating gorilla, slavering across a field of skulls (see cut). Its prose, however, was no match for this pictorial violence. One article printed in groping English described a government that could ban the word "God" from the textbooks as "such ossy, ossy, phally, prehistoric boneheads...
Golden Honeymoon (See front cover...
Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...