Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Tribune and Hearstpapers warmed to their new policies of attacking NRA editorially. Tribune excerpt: "The Government, undertaking to control American industry and business by codes enforced in minute detail by Federal authority over all phases of American production, has failed to meet the expectations of the administrators, failed to satisfy the economic requirements of the country, to fit in congenially with the American temperament, and to remedy the ills for which it was used as a cure...
...Hearst excerpt: "The blighting effect of the NRA policy has been so complete that a justifiable interpretation of the letters NRA would make them read, 'No Recovery Allowed...
...Congress. Columbia News Service asked for gallery seats for three Columbia reporters who would take notes like any correspondents and relay the day's doings on the legislative floors via microphone. Hotly to the ramparts leaped Editor & Publisher with an editorial entitled ''The Radio Menace." Excerpt: "Radio broadcasting in this country is not entitled to press privileges because it is not a free institution-it is a government licensed instrument which is susceptible to dictation by any administration that wishes to use radio to serve partisan or special ends. . . . "The best it can do, in routine reporting...
...following is an excerpt from the Dunster House Luncheon Menu for November 8: "On Wednesday evening, November 15, Prof. Edward Vallantine will give a Piano Recital at 7.30. Guests including ladies will be welcome both at the Dinner and the Concert...
...Never Be," and in "A Natural History of the Dead," which is an excerpt from the prolix thesis on bull-fights, "Death In The Afternoon," Hemingway is bitter, and by no means at his best. "One Reader-Writes" is a letter from a young woman to a doctor columnist in which she asks him if her husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example...