Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told a Senate committee last April: ". . . This program must be such that American citizens accept it as a matter of right-with no feeling of social inferiority." He saw six things...
Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
...Turkey it was a victory for strong-man policies. For Syria, occupation of the Sanjak by Turkish troops means a loss of her one good harbor at Alexandretta. The Sanjak cannot legally become Turkish without League of Nations sanction, but with Turkish troops there it will be an easy matter to slip the strategic territory into Dictator Kamal Atatürk's outstretched arms...
...fazed by reactions to his story. From the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he was undergoing treatment for a stomach ulcer, the President's son authorized the statement that he "naturally is indignant over certain outright misrepresentations . . . he has requested his attorneys to consider the matter for future conference." Mr. Johnston's comment was: "Let 'em sue. I have only scratched the surface on Jimmy." Young Roosevelt as a whiskey insurance man and Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy as a whiskey salesman had found their dealings with each other un usually satisfying, according to Mr. Johnston...
...system-any steel consumer paid the Pittsburgh base price plus freight from Pittsburgh to his door, even though the steel might come from a mill in an entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that the steel was actually being delivered from a Chicago plant next...