Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis McHenry Howe, the Governor's personal secretary and political handyman. What Mrs. Belle Moskowitz was to Alfred Emanuel Smith, what George Edward Akerson was to Herbert Hoover, what Edward ("Ted") Clark was to Calvin Coolidge, Louis Howe is to Franklin Roosevelt. A newshawk for the old New York Herald, he attached himself in 1911 to Mr. Roosevelt who took him along to the Navy Department. They have been together ever since, call each other "Franklin" and "Louis," share the Governor's town house on East 65th Street. Lacking personal ambition, Secretary Howe keeps himself far in the background, vigorously...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...
...foreigners. But suddenly last week the whole Press of Mexico City joined in pointing out that for a mere Mexican state to snatch gringo capitalists' belongings is quite another thing, stupid and unconstitutional. Prominently the great independent daily El Universal featured an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune remarking how wrong it was for Governor Bartolome Vargas Lugo of the State of Hidalgo to seize a $300,000 cement plant from its British owners (TIME, June 6). For once it seemed that Wall Street and Mexico City could enthusiastically clasp hands, but the circumstances were very special...
Died. William Alfred Moore, 13, able assistant editor & circulation manager of the mimeographed Chitina, Alaska Weekly Herald (TIME, May 25, 1931); by drowning, when he slipped from a log into the Copper River at Chitina...