Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims. It so happens that Mr. Mills is a large minority stockholder in the Herald Tribune.* He wrote a letter explaining his stand. The Herald Tribune promptly printed his letter in full...
...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...
Officers. To succeed S. E. Thomason (Chicago Tribune) as their president, the publishers elected John Stewart Bryan (Richmond News-Leader). Edward H. Butler (Buffalo Evening News), George M. Rogers (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Howard Davis (New York Herald Tribune) were other new officers?vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively...
...judges who passed on the merits of the competitors were Professor A. B. Hart '80, Professor J. P. S. Tatlock '96, and Mr. R. L. O'Brien '91, editor of the Boston Herald...
Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...