Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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QUITE contrary to the sweeping claim on the jacket of this book, Mr. Edwin C. Hill is not the inaugurator of a "new profession, that of the journalist historian". To the readers of "Our Times", of "Only Yesterday", of "Interpretations" any such assertion appears stupidly absurd. Before the appearance of "The American Scene" Mr. Hill was merely one of a number of pleasant voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading...
...patronesses for the affair: the Mmes. E. B. Hill, W. E. Hocking W. F. Houghton, F. W. MacVeagh. D. R. McLaughlin, P. G. E. Miller, S. E. Morison. Harold Murdock, K. B. Murdock. R. B. Wroght, and H. A. Yeomans...
Their preliminary flashes sent, press associations began to get an idea of the scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
...doors, he demurred at waving his hand for the cameras again because he was "afraid of developing a permanent wave." When his wrinkled Secretary Louis Howe bought a new suit, the President issued a playful "special bulletin" to the Press. Last week, when Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill broadcast over C. B. S. an approving report of the President's first actions, the President had Secretary Steve Early telephone Reporter Hill, thank him, ask for a copy of his speech. With all admiration, slangy newshawks describe their new White House character as "a smoothie...
...Greater Boston interscholastic League and the Bay State interscholastic League. The figure skating part of the evening features Miss Maribel Vinson, one of the foremost performers of the United states and members of the Olympic figure-skating team. There will also be exhibitions by the "Skating Maddens," G. B. Hill and Mrs. T. W. Blanchard...