Word: paged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's raucous, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune. After two straight weeks of vilification by the Tribune, Administrator Hunter called in 19 reporters including one from the Tribune, gave the Tribune a thoroughgoing tongue-lashing for "filthy editorializing" and "vicious propaganda." handed out a 25-page memorandum of specific rebuttals to the Tribune'?, charges including the news that one of the Tribune's WPA-baiting reporters had been suspended by WPA for drunkenness, fired for negligence (TIME...
Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...
...henchmen and now installed in Washington with the backing of Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co. (a bus manufacturer), suggested to Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman that railroad fares be "postalized." Fortnight ago Mr. Hastings popped up again with his scheme, took a full-page advertisement in the New York Times to propound it. Under "postalization," the U. S. would be divided into nine zones, and for each of five types of passenger service the same rate would be charged for travel anywhere within a given zone. Examples : New York to Albany, $1 ; New York to Chicago...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...
Thus ran sport-page headlines last April when Baseball Umpire Bill Stewart, in his first year as manager of a hockey team, flew his limp-winged Chicago Black Hawks to a Stanley Cup victory. Last week, on the third day of 1939, the Miracle Man of 1938 was given the bum's rush...