Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepts the jury's opinion," agreed the Buffalo Courier & Express. "The nail holes were not mistaken!" exulted the Pittsburgh Press. The Philadelphia Inquirer boomed: "Justice well deserved has come to the man Hauptmann!" To various journals the verdict was: "logical" (Boston Transcript), "healthy" (Knoxville Journal), "salutary" (Albany News), "memorable" (Minneapolis Daily Sun), "in accord with law and fact'' (Detroit Free Press...
...Public Favorite was David Lloyd George; No. 2, Winston Churchill; No. 3, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, tireless, hard-driving master of the Express...
...grubby street in Lodz, Poland, Lord Beaverbrook's stunt-loving London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping...
...London Daily Express, enterprising stunter (see above), invited its readers to state what people they liked to read about most (and least). Public Bore No. 1 was George Bernard Shaw. After him in order of boredom...
...Express elevator speed: Chrysler Building, 800 ft. per min.; Empire State...