Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia, The H.A.A. expects a better drive for ducats than was the cast in the Chicago fray and will continue their policy of the $.55 childern seats in the wooden stands. These went well last Saturday, albeit the fact that anyone who sat in the Bowl end of the Stadium felt rather self-conscious...
Ever in the rip tide of pressure groups, Washington during the past month was the scene of a unique Battle of the Pressagents. Sitting in judgment was an emergency Fact-Finding Board of three appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether railroad managements were justified in imposing a general 15% wage cut (TIME, April...
After a 48-hour extension of the Fact-Finding Board's 30-day deliberation, reporters were called to the White House. There the board's chairman, Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina, who has all the mannerisms of a country judge including scratching his head with his gavel (see cut), wearily announced that the board believed the wage cut unjustified...
...would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...
SUPERFICIAL, erroneous in places and uncritical throughout, "Jazz Journalism" is nevertheless a clever defense of the tabloid press and a direct rebuke to the upper classes which abhor it. Both the demand for such a press and the fact that it is avidly read, by these same upper classes is clearly demonstrated...