Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes devoted to pictures of U. S. Army defense plans war propaganda or were the editors sincere in wishing to point out the futility and colossal stupidness of such extravagant expenditures by the flash at the end showing "Lloyd's" ?500-to-1 odds against invasion? If the latter, your editors should remember that the movie public is larger and more impressionable than the magazine's public and doubtless missed the point entirely. Change the accompanying music score to Grieg's Ase's Death instead of the typical Stars and Stripes Forever ditties and your March of Time will...
...Presidential Nominee Smith was viciously cartooned in the Hearst press as the political consort of "Diamond Lil" Democracy, aglitter with John J. Raskob's vulgar diamonds. To climax the feud Publisher Hearst in the 1932 Chicago convention swung his Garner delegates to Franklin D. Roosevelt thus insuring the latter's nomination. Muttered deeply disgruntled Democrat Smith: "As long as Hearst and McAdoo are running the Democratic Party, I don't want anything to do with...
...Heads of units must be kind and patient in their dealings with subordinates, but, if these latter commit offenses and are not repentant, punishment should be firm. Subordinates must be respectful toward their superiors, and even when expressing firm convictions must not forget the important rules of discipline. The Army, in brief, must be united from head to foot in a consciousness of its high mission to serve the nation and the Emperor...
...battle of Press v. Radio, the latter has lately seemed to be gaining ground. On one front the Press-Radio pact, designed to put Radio on a starvation diet of newscasts, virtually broke down last spring. Last July, on another front, Editor & Publisher took its first calm view of newspaper-owned radio stations, advised publishers not to be caught napping if and when new wavelengths are available...
TIME based its statement on Sports Promoter Adams' frequent claim that he is an eighth cousin of the onetime Secretary of the Navy. Although the latter has never publicly denied the claim, his Cousin John Adams last week said: "I could name all the living members of various branches and Charles F. Adams absolutely is not of our family. I can assure you most definitely of that...