Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teach Republicans anything about national politics. But from the last congressional campaign the G. O. P. learned from the Democracy two tricks: 1) having the national party organization function continuously, instead of just before a campaign; 2) employing a smart, persistent publicity man. To staunch the flow of crack anti-Republican propaganda which emanated from the office of Democratic Director of Publicity Charles Michelson, the Republicans hired James West from the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. Last week steps were taken to make the Republican campaign headquarters permanent and potent, like the organization built and operated by Jouett Shouse...
...seepings from the flooded river Saone had turned the interior of Fourviere to a quaking pudding. Earl)' in the week engineers reported danger of landslides to city authorities. At 1:15 in the morning people living on the flank of Fourviere heard a noise ''like the crack of doom" felt the world slip out beneath them...
Since everyone is taking a crack at Coolidge, columnist cum laude, why not get real low-down and quote from Voltaire in his Candide...
...being a round flaying of the Republican administration. When the crowd booed his first mention of President Hoover, he waved them into silence with, "Don't let's take up the radio time." (He pronounced it "raydio," not "raddio" as he did in 1928.) A sample Smith crack of last week...
...weekly colyumist on Zit's Theatrical Newspaper is its managing editor, Paul Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell...