Word: item
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Cols, I and 2, p. 9, TIME, May 29, you print an item from the Punjab, extolling Herbert Hoover as the "giant who feeds all people." Since Mr. Hoover's entire public performance rests in the fact that he was Food Distributor during the latter part of the war, this seems an appropriate place to interpolate a few words of comparison between Hoover and other unknown, but highly efficient Food Distributors...
...arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press where stories and pictures of female pulchritude are so standardized that it is scarcely necessary to change the names from day to day. Characteristic was an item in Variety, theatre weekly, which published an article on the hotel accommodations and diet of the Galveston contestants, entitled FOREIGN BEAUTS CRAVE HOT MEAT...
...This item smacks of yellow journalism as one who did not read it carefully would infer that a four-year-old child had died in convulsions from eating chocolates. Careful reading of the article shows however that it was not in any sense candy but laxative pills that caused the convulsions...
...refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
Submerged in the second paragraph of a small article on the front page of yesterday's News was the following item: "Harvard will play Princeton in a dual golf match on the Ray Tompkins Memorial Links tomorrow morning". The statement does not sound startling in itself, but it does show the utter futility of two great universities trying to keep at arms length from each other for an appreciable length of time. Harvard and Princeton have officially severed football relations for an indefinite period. Concerning the much-discussed break there is apparently much to be said on both sides...