Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night; the rolltop desk in his little den had rattled steadily under the impact of his heavy-handed typing. That house holds all of Arthur Vandenberg's private life. There he moved the year (1906) he jumped from city-hall reporter to managing editor of the Grand Rapids Herald-the paper to which he came as a cub the same night in 1902 that Frank Knox also applied for work. To that house went his first wife, Elizabeth Watson, mother of his three children, who died in 1916. Two years later he married Hazel Whittaker of Fort Wayne...
...traders, apprehensive of peace proposals Orator Hitler might make at Danzig, did a little quick profit taking, then spun the dials of their radio sets to hear the Führer. "It was a market based on peace jitters," recorded Financial Editor C. Norman Stabler of the New York Herald Tribune. He figured that the day before, "the market lost 32% of the war upswing" because it was feared that A. Hitler might directly propose peace...
Conductor Harrison's tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything...
...point of view in the neutrality controversy has been expressed by Harvard's Jerome D. Greene in a Boston Herald article notable for its logic and calm. Had this article been written some two decades ago, it might very well have been taken for an utterance, likewise reasonable and collected, of Woodrow Wilson. The specific line of argument and the names mentioned may differ. But the broad sentiments outlined, the implications drawn, and finally the social myths preached are identical...
...strongly worded, signed article on the editorial page of yesterday's Boston Herald, Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, urged America to see that "national interests are reconciled with these of humanity" in its attitude toward the European...