Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting was an impossibility. One of Mayor Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about the state of civil liberties. The usual answer: "You know what might happen to a guy if he talks out of turn in this town...
Other outstanding figures behind the meeting are John D. Conners, national vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers, City Councilor Daniel Boyle, secretary of the Massachusetts Industrial Organization Council; and L. O. Hartman, editor of Zion's Herald...
...year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...
...third of the newsprint used in the U. S. (3,700,000 tons last year) is made in the U. S.; almost one-third of the newsprint made in the U. S. is made by Great Northern. Great Northern's customers include Scripps-Howard, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Sun and some 200 smaller papers. To them Great Northern's president, handsome William Arthur Whitcomb, has not been tough in making prices. Result is that he is popular with publishers but poison to his colleagues in the newsprint industry...
Last year Edgar Snow, 31-year-old, Missouri-born Far Eastern correspondent of the New York Sun and London Daily Herald, got into Soviet China by means of such melodramatic dodges as a letter written in invisible ink, meetings with Soviet spies in Chiang Kai-shek's army, a night trip through the front lines. Last week, in a 474-page volume* that John Gunther (Inside Europe) called "as good a job of reporting as has ever been done," he gave U. S. readers the results of his four months' observation of Soviet China, his nine years...