Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
...Times's tabloid baby will probably be christened the Mirror. When it toddles out into the afternoon field against Hearst's rough & tumble Herald & Express, Los Angeles may see its lustiest newspaper scrap in a generation. Momentarily on the sidelines, rival Publisher Boddy told the Times to take heart: "Nearly a quarter of a century ago," he wrote, "we adopted a penniless, tattered little brat that was languishing in bankruptcy . . . It kept on keeping on until it has, I fear, become somewhat respectable. So chin up, Norman, it can be done...
...bouncing back from a wave of resignations (TIME, May 31 et seq.), took a firm new grip on the business. The remaining ten directors voted to cut the board from 15 members to twelve, with only two new directors to be elected; stockholders would have a minimum opportunity to express disapproval of imperious Chairman Sewell Avery...
Delegates to the Western Union conference of Foreign Ministers at The Hague last week got a small practical demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
Died. Ralph D. Blumenfeld, 84, Wisconsin-born, British-naturalized editor of the London Daily Express (1902-1932); in Dunmow, Essex. Blumenfeld joined the Daily Express when its circulation was 250,000, helped raise it to more than 2,000,000, and won the sobriquet, "Father of Fleet Street," before he retired...