Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...censorship upon all means of communication. At this point the new Nationalist State, not yet recognized by any Great Power, stood badly in need of such moral support as could be given, for example, by the U. S. To a certain blatant U. S. newspaper publisher must go the credit for signing and publishing, last week, a superb, soaring overstatement of what was in the hearts of many U. S. friends of China, as follows: Give China her recognition quickly, sympathetically, heartily. It is only one hundred and fifty years since we were winning our own independence. There...
...pride-pointing Republican editors gave Nominee Hoover credit for something new in politics. But, as a matter of fact-_. A few days before the Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
Hasty editors might, from the above record, assign to Nominee Curtis the credit for eliminating "baloney pictures" from the 1928 campaign. But no editor would do so who is a journalist before he is a partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities...
...Strong was again in Europe. And his Manhattan supporters noted with alarm that Chicago was showing distinct signs of insubordination, was even pretending to take the lead in the intricate business of money-juggling. Boldly, the Chicago Reserve Bank recalled its warnings of last fall, pointed to diminishing credit reserves and wild speculation, jumped its rediscount rate to 5% (TIME, July 23). Manhattan, accustomed to lead, was forced to follow. Chicago's press openly flayed the absent Gov. Strong; screechingly demanded his resignation...
...credit resources already strained by the movement of gold abroad, the Federal Reserve stopped buying government securities, started selling them, withdrawing loose money from the market, reducing its credit reserves still further...