Word: coverly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some newspaper editors who feel that their newshawks assigned to cover the White House are altogether too pliable in the dexterous hands of Franklin Roosevelt last week had a taste of the President's professional hospitality. Mr. Roosevelt set aside an evening for a heart-to-heart with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. With high hopes of getting "inside dope" from an evening's interview, the editors marched in. The President greeted them cordially, talked to them at length, hardly allowed them to get a question in edgewise. Coming out by the same door wherein they went...
With its customary zeal in reminding Frenchmen of the glorious hazards of life in the French colonies, the Paris Illustration hastened to print photographs of the jungle tragedy, taken on the scene by the Belgian Congo's official photographer. L'Illustration's cover showed the great white gash the plane had cut in the forest. Inside was a meticulous chart showing the contours of the plane's debris and the exact positions to which the crash hurled the bodies of Governor and Mme Renard and their five companions...
...suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired, fired, rehired on various San Francisco newspapers, the skyrocket of Jack Neylan's career was touched off in 1910 when the Bulletin assigned him to cover Hiram Johnson's campaign for Governor on the new Progressive ticket. Governor-elect Johnson took him to Sacramento as chairman of the new State Board of Control, for which Neylan had drafted the plan. Chairman Neylan's achievements transcended all legal limitations of the job. When the superintendents...
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...week six Kansas counties reported their wheat crop a total failure. In the spring wheat States (Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin) the yield of the crop now being planted was estimated at 190,000,000 bu. This, added to the winter wheat crop, will just about cover the annual U. S. wheat consumption of 625,000,000 bu. But the Agriculture Department's figures were drawn up before last week's dust storm. Its damage, estimated in the millions, may well throw the country back upon its wheat surplus (expected to total...