Word: en
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Graf Zeppelin made her first flight from Germany to the U. S. in 1928 Hearst correspondents had exclusive right to send news despatches en route. North American Newspaper Alliance's Berlin agent arranged with a passenger, Robert Reiner, Manhattan businessman, for descriptions of the flight which he would send as private radiograms to friends in the U. S., although all passengers were required to sign an agreement with the airship operators that they would not give out reports during the flight or for eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages...
...quelquefois an village Qu'un casque qa, sert a rien du tout,-. . . Ca sert a donner du courage A cenx qui n'en ont pas du tout-pas du tout...
...En route to New Brunswick, Canada, Lord Beaverbrook, London newspaper publisher, paused in Manhattan "to hear the news . . . for New York is now the centre of the world." Said he of Great Britain's War debts to the U. S.: "I wouldn't send you a penny. But you'll get your money, I'm afraid." Of England's faith in the U. S.: "Not one there has the least fear or anxiety over the balances here. No one in the remotest degree credits the suggestion that America is going off the gold standard...
Proceeding with all haste to the scene of conflagration the Vagabond was delighted to discover that the De Wolf Street "shambles" were being consumed by flames. The gilded unemployed were pouring from their crested mansions while their professional colleagues moved en masse across from their habitual hang-out on the opposite corner. The Vagabond squirmed with delight as a Harvard man struck a match in the friendliest manner and offered his extracurricular acquaintance a light. The act was positively democratic and bristling with bolshevist implications...
...sixteenth century. Decorative borders frequently adorn the page and cuts and text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris...