Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brewers, distillers, winemakers, millions of moderate and immoderate U. S. drinkers might, 34 years ago last week, have grinned pityingly or sneered had they seen a newspaper item obscurely printed in the press of the period. Most of them probably did not see the item, for the newspapers of 1893 gave it no large headlines, no prominent position. It related that 14 ministers, college professors and tradesmen of Oberlin, Ohio, assembled in the library of Oberlin College, had founded a society to be known as the Anti-Saloon League...
...anyone who knows how sensitive about such matters the true Bostonian is, how sincerely the readers of the Transcript feel such a blow, this item of news shadows the flight of Lindbergh, makes the flood a mere incident, and destroys the importance of Bozo's return to this hub of greater Boston. Small wonder that sleepless heads beat upon the blanched pillow of Beacon Hill; that hatred of Sacco and his partner in disaster faded as this news flashed. Many even forgot the fight to remove the Chevrolet sign from Park Square as they meditated upon the myth of Mary...
...Bakeless refers to an item which related how John Carter, newspaperman, had addressed an open letter to President Coolidge. TIME holds that it is inappropriate for newsgatherers, far less assistant literary editors, to address open letters to the President of the U. S. Fully acquainted with Journalist Carter's record, TIME did not dwell upon those portions of it from which he might be expected to have learned who may appropriately address open letters to the President of the U. S. Would Managing Editor Bakeless, himself the author of two volumes on international politics (Economic Causes of Modern...
...find your reporting of events often exasperating as well as surprising in a paper which professes to aim at brevity. You reach the meat of an item by the most circuitous route. The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office...
Considering that an appreciable, though by no means threatening portion of New England industries has moved to the newly energetic Piedmont section of North & South Carolina, this item in last week's New England News Letter ("booster" periodical) suggested a thin smile, wry yet polite...