Word: items
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most important was the item of recognition of the property right of news. U. S. delegates protested against theft of exclusive news, scoops and beats, averring that the newspaper which discovers news first should have the sole right, for the day at least, to print the news. British newspapers were opposed, arguing that whatever happens is the property of the people, not a private organization...
...Philadelphia Chronicle printed this item: "It gives us pleasure to state that the locomotive engine built by our townsman, M. W. Baldwin, has proved highly successful. In the presence of several gentlemen of science and information on such subjects, the engine was yesterday placed upon the road for the first time. All her parts had been previously highly finished and fitted together in Mr. Baldwin's factory. She was taken apart on Tuesday, and removed to the Company's depot, and yesterday morning she was completely together, ready for travel. After the regular [horse-drawn] passenger cars...
...used to be a pleasure to put TIME into the hands of the children in my cur rent "censor" events and cut class ; out but an now item I every have now to and then, and I am not at all sure that I want to continue taking the trouble of doing course, this. One cancellation. alternative would be, of I think that a simpler and much better solution would be, however, for you to of adopt this anything rule : which, "TIME while will it print may no be 'right' details or 'moral' in some other...
...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
...inadvertently set the house on fire. Sobering instantly, be ordered the geisha girls out into the street, and personally organized and directed the men-servants in carrying out furniture and extinguishing the fire. When a bill for the damage he had wrought was presented, Baron Tanaka caused each item to be verified by shrewd appraisal, then paid the total swiftly in cash...