Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out with the McAdoo editorial missing, in its place an urgent plea for the election of the Rev. Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob'') Shuler, Prohibition candidate whom the Record had long flayed as a '"snooper" and "meddler." Readers who thought the editor had lost his mind dis covered that instead he had lost his job be tween editions, been replaced by order of James's son & successor. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 23. Year later the Record changed hands, dropped into stodgy conservatism, lost circulation and advertising. In January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced...
...integral part of the British Empire can or should be returned to Germany. In this connection the new King some years ago proved himself sound when a U. S. Senator suggested that since Britain was unable to pay her War debt in cash the Empire might. prefer to dis charge its obligation by ceding the British West Indies to the U. S. in part payment. In Barbados immediately afterward Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, made a vigorous speech which loyal Britons last week recalled with pride in their new King. "The King's subjects are not for sale...
...During the final phase of a stormy career, Dr. Sun was thoroughly dis credited, and had a diminishing number of followers. Only after his death was he virtually canonized, and did his 'Three Principles' (San Min Chu I)- which Borodin mocked at in his reports to Moscow- become the gospel of the Kuomintang...
...York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction, because newspaper publishers have discovered that news pictures help circulation and enormously improve their newspapers' appearance. Torn two ways by its journalist's contempt for photography...
...Last week France, which cherishes its old alliance with Poland even more than its new one with Russia, lost no time in trying to fix up one of the flaws in the new treaty setup, a flaw caused by the fact that Poland's Dictator Pilsudski dis- trusted Russia and rather liked Germany. To Foreign Minister Pierre Laval fell the chore of explaining the innocence of the Franco-Russian treaty to Pilsudski...