Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanley Baldwin desires and expects to be succeeded as Prime Minister by the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, laborious and uninspiring Neville Chamberlain. In the Labor Daily Herald last week the Margate Conference was cartooned as a "Political Dreamland Movie Palace," presenting Mr. Chamberlain in the stellar role of a film entitled The Man Who Could Work Miracles (But Won't). The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the Conference in fact as the designated representative of the Prime Minister, and Mr. Baldwin had interrupted the three-month holiday he is taking on doctor's orders to come...
...surprising how fresh the Herald Tribune sage's articles remain when they are issued, frozen inside book-covers. You turn the pages from the panic mood of January, 1933, when Mr. Lipmann joined his well-modulated call to the rest of those who demanded swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue...
Paragraphs like this, appearing daily last week under the heading DRESS TO FIT YOUR TYPE on the woman's page of the Hearst Chicago Herald & Examiner, differed from the accepted standards of such journalism in two notable respects: 1) readers applying for the questionnaire were charged 25? for answers; 2) name signed to the column was that of no hack journalist, but of Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also...
...business for its members, not even an institutional campaign. In modest little two-column insertions in dailies in the Northeast it was announced that a booklet called The New York Stock Exchange, Its Functions and Operations would be sent free upon request. In the New York Times and Herald Tribune the Exchange got preferred positions on the second or third pages along with the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Knox Hats, Reuben's and the Brass Rail restaurants...
...boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth. But it is notable that precisely never does either of them come out and annihilate a book that...