Word: item
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana elections are won and lost in the newspapers. When Candidate Wilson ran strongly last week, his votes feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...
Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
Source Sirs: Will you please refer me to your source for Mr. Thomas Campbell's suggestion on farm relief? TIME for Jan. 9 said they were "released last week." I thought I covered farm subjects in the papers pretty carefully, but evidently I missed your item completely...
Dress. The impression which the trip was calculated to create became evident in a small White House news item of last month. All was being arranged even to the incidental of what the newspapermen should wear. Such of "The Boys" as expected to attach themselves to the President's official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress...
...nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid the highest price?$28,000?that was offered for any single item. This secured them a bust of Madame de Wailly, wife of Charles de Wailly, court architect to the last king of France. A lady with long thick curls, a sullen mouth and a thick nose, her oblique but unmistakable disdain was not softened by the compliment...