Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voicing my sentiments. Down our way we want a whole lot." President Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President Hoover sent the first message to President Ortiz Rubio. Excerpt: "I earnestly trust that the news that will flash back and forth over this wire will reflect an ever increasing sympathy between our countries...
...President Hoover has complained because no Republican has been rising to defend him in the Senate. And Tennessee's red-faced Senator McKellar was attacking the President with charges so hackneyed that even good Democrats were embarrassed. So Senator Glenn got to his feet and made a speech. Excerpt...
Last week Stokowski anticipated the inevitable comparison with a press statement which lavishly extolled the genius of Toscanini in terms applicable to any great conductor, perhaps even to Stokowski himself. Excerpt: "The melodic line he molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through...
...days later the newspapers had another Capone story to play up, this time with Capone as the Hero. Searching the apartment of Gangster Terrence Druggan, police found a letter conspiring to kill Capone. Excerpt: "I am in a position to take care of the big fellow. I can do anything you want me to." Ignoring other items of news-interest in the Druggan raid, editors headlined CAPONE ON SPOT...
...bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem...