Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protesting against the section are doing so on the principle . . . that paid-for news propaganda must not be included as legitimate advertising in figures sent to advertisers and agencies." Even the conservative Editor & Publisher warned that "the whole enterprise comes perilously close to the ethical line. . . . Commercial announcements, no matter what their object and no matter how pleasingly prepared, have no right to trespass on the space and the garb in which the public expects newspapers to print their own views and the authentic reports of responsible correspondents...
...case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could no longer ignore the matter. For mild Judge St. Sure found "that Herbert Fleishhacker violated his trust to the Anglo Bank and its stockholders...
...make a private profit for himself in the discharge of his official duties," Judge St. Sure ordered Banker Fleishhacker to give an accounting to the Anglo stockholders. Heavy-jowled Herbert Fleishhacker retorted: "We'll appeal and win." His lawyer, quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, sniffed: "I view the matter as a rather interesting development in an episode that is far from ended...
...into being in 1929, when the Booksellers Association donated 500 volumes; in 1933 they gave 200 more. Before it was started Presidents depended on their personal collections kept in the White House study, and on books from the Library of Congress. When the new batch of White House reading matter was presented by President Lewis B. Traver of the Booksellers Association, it was parked first on the second floor, where members of the Roosevelt family could select what they wanted to read, and where Mrs. Roosevelt could pick books to place in guest rooms...