Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan a pinking far more effective than the bludgeonings of his customarily solemn critics. Full text...
...appeal were last week foreshadowed by an interview he gave. Arthur Krock, No. 1 Washington correspondent of the New York Times, was admitted to the Presidential presence and given the benefit of a pontifical discussion of the issue by the man most interested. Mr. Krock managed to get one paragraph for quasi-direct quotation ("the President this week has been saying to his friends"): "When I retire to private life on Jan. 20, 1941, I do not want to leave the country in the condition Buchanan left it to Lincoln.-If I cannot, in the brief time given...
Chapter 1. Paragraph 10, of the Navy's Uniform Regulations states that a retired officer is entitled to wear his uniform if called to active service, has the option of wearing it at other times...
Several amendments to increase the size of the appropriation were offered in the House. None of them mustered more than 51 votes. The discipline of the majority had little to do with this startling amenability of the House. It was due almost entirely to a paragraph hastily stuck into the Committee report at the last minute by request of President Roosevelt: if necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief...
...issue of TIME for Nov. 23 appears a review of American Agent by Melvin H. Purvis. In the final paragraph of the review, on p. 94, it is reported, correctly I assume, that Mr. Purvis makes the following reference to George Ziegler...