Word: heraldings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While in Africa the cannon throw their projectiles and airplanes drop their bombs," the Acting President told the New York Herald Tribune's Forum on Current Affairs, ". . . we are determined not to enter into armed conflicts that may arise between other countries, and to enforce such policies as may be required to avoid that risk...
This cum laude graduate of Harvard (1924) served as a junior Washington correspondent and later as an editorial writer on the New York Herald Tribune before getting himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1932. Though that arch-Republican paper swings few votes in Massachusetts, it came out strongly last week for its onetime employe...
Similarly moved, the Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape, similar to her headdress in Peter Pan. . . . She walked gracefully to the stand, stood erect for a moment, then turned and bowed to Justice McNamee . . . another bow to the jury . . . she seated herself...
Chicago editors' stomachs were less delicate. Despite the fact that William Randolph Hearst opposes capital punishment, his Herald & Examiner gave the picture a full page, tacked on a homely sermon against crime by Rev. Thomas Anderson, religion editor. Next day the Herex ran all six pictures and the Hearst American slapped one across Page One with a homily by Rev. Preston Bradley, publicity-loving dean of the Chicago clergy...
...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...