Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley of the University of California-had made a profuse but neat collection of tales, poems and tag-end tid-bits from great writers of all ages. Pages of parallel quotations were entitled Some Women I Have...
Senator Underwood of Alabama, sponsor of the Muscle Shoals Bill before the Senate, rose in that august chamber to read an editorial from The Washington Herald (Hearst paper) which referred to the Underwood Bill as "Another Teapot Dome Thrust upon Mr. Coolidge...
...Manhattan, last week, counsel for the New York Herald-Tribune employed much the same arguments used by Mr. Baker and his colleague, to win acquittal for their clients before Judge John C. Knox and a Federal Grand Jury. Whereupon the prosecution (i. e., the Government), in order finally to test the law, had the Herald-Tribune reindicted, using as grounds the tax figures of individuals other than those named in the first indictment. The re-indictment was quashed perfunctorily by Judge Knox, as the prosecution intended it should be; and the Government was free to appeal this second case...
...world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse and forceful thought beneath a lively flow of front-page vulgarity; where the Sun, heavy...
...Guilty"), the newspapers fell back upon the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, that Amendment which guarantees to the press the right of free speech. Everyone was agreed that the law provided that the tax lists should be placed "open to public inspection." The question, as the Herald-Tribune framed it, would therefore be: "Can Congress say, 'You may talk, but you may not write...