Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saving the Country. Last July the Tribune headlined the birth of an organization with BE A VOLUNTEER IN GREAT FIGHT TO SAVE NATION! and first announced its slogan: "Only 97 days are left to save your country!" Aim was to enroll citizens who would carry the Landon message by ringing doorbells and telephones, singing songs, making street- corner addresses ("Walk up to a crowd and boldly recite your speech!"). Volunteers were urged to end telephone conversations not with "Goodby" but with "Join the Volunteers." Recruiting offices were established on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower, ballyhoo appeared daily...
...York City-Chicago's newspaper lineup, 4-to-1 against Roosevelt, is typical of the nation's. That of New York City, the nation's press capital, is not. In the Democratic metropolis, four big papers are for Roosevelt, five against him. Latest and weightiest New York convert to the New Deal is the august Times (circulation: 450,000). True to the Independent Democracy of his late father-in-law, Adolph Ochs, self-effacing young Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger swung his venerable journal to the Democracy one day last month (TIME, Oct. 12), promptly reasserted its independence...
...crusades have grown stale with custom and the Hearst political influence is uniformly discounted by experienced observers. But, win or lose next week, Publisher Hearst himself is sure of a place in the history of the 1936 campaign. It was he who "discovered" Alf Landon, put him on the nation's front page (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). It was he who originated the Red Issue, won a personal attack from the White House (TIME, Sept. 28). Finally, as ultimate testimony to his symbolic stature in the imaginations and passions of the nation, he personally has taken...
...Landon might quite often be found at home with Governor Landon and the children. What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
...June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes if there is "reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation. ..." Amid uncertainty as to the application of this act the Vancouver branch of U. S. Boeing Airplane Co. was rumored likely to get United Kingdom orders which might be too "hot" to be executed...