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...required to make any promises to the British Government regarding comments on conditions in Palestine and India. When I applied for visas, British passport officers and British Consul General, New York City, told me that special permission was required for newspapermen to visit Palestine and India. I then explained I was planning a rapid journey around the world and obviously halts would be so brief that it would be impossible for me to undertake anything but superficial surveys of situations. The passport officer immediately, upon learning the nature of my journey, cooperated to the utmost...
...this excitement is displayed against the familiar Goldberg background of monstrous art & architecture. Like so many successful newspapermen, Rube Goldberg started in San Francisco. In 1907 he went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, which showed a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed...
...evening last week in the Tropical Room of Chicago's Medinah Athletic Club a hundred newspapermen and a posse of local Republican bigwigs assembled to hear a radio broadcast. What they were going to hear was a secret that few knew. That it was going to be "sensational," that it was going to be broadcast over-station WGN of the bitterly Republican Chicago Tribune and 66 outlets of the Columbia network, was common talk...
Back cracked Nominee Landon in Topeka: "This Administration seems to be finding a lot of red herrings. It's too bad we can't eat them. ... As I said to Kansas newspapermen some time ago, we are not only having censorship of news but censorship of the sources of news under this Administration. . . . The New Deal is resisting every attempt to get the facts about the WPA. . . . As I have said before, they are afraid that publicity would reveal waste and extravagance...
Roosevelt. He's well-known in labor spy circles. . . . Jones has got a flock of guys out in the field, in several states, passing themselves off as newspapermen. They blow our people to parties, buy them drinks and all that, and then pump them...