Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damn with faint praise a now more fashionable than to deplore; to poll has become both cumbrous and prosaic; but to sent out a petition, preferably one raising some great and starting issue, can still be relied upon to achieve the sweet thrill of fame. And so the Brown Herald, oppressed by the taedium vitae, thought it might be a good thing to count heads on one of our more perplexing problems. Accordingly the Brown student body, and all owners of college printing presses, were asked to unite against "bearing arms except in case of invasion." Expectantly the bread...
...Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
While most Germans were staggered by this edict, the Official German Press Censor nonchalantly passed the following comment by Correspondent John Elliott, Chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Berlin Bureau: "The prestige of President von Hindenburg among the Republican portion of the population is completely ruined by today's developments. He no longer commands the confidence of the entire nation as he did a year ago. He was re-elected at that time by the Republican vote in the confident expectation that he would preserve the Constitution. In this belief the German Republicans have been sorely...
...went down the list of White House correspondents, many of whom were long known to the President. Ernest Lindley of the New York Herald Tribune had covered Mr. Roosevelt since he began his first gubernatorial term at Albany. U. P.'s Storm had been with him since the winter of 1929. Universal's Edward L. Roddan, International's George Durno, A. P.'s Francis Stephenson, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger had been on the job since the Presidential campaign...
...During the War he served "briefly" with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia; after the Armistice continued his education at Williams, Toronto, Oxford, Heidelberg, Marburg, Bliss Business College. Off & on a newshawk for ten years (on the Ohio State Journal, New York Telegram, New York Daily News, New York Herald-Tribune), he tried his hand unsuccessfully at writing advertising copy, teaching school, studying medicine. Rackety Rax's success gave him a better idea...