Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unstable that if he is to maintain his government against the ever increasing violence of Nazi propaganda, he must have more than the moral backing of the other powers. According to dispatches from Vienna he has decided to appeal to the League tomorrow and ask that Article XI, paragraph 2, be invoked against Germany. That the League itself would have much effect in halting the Nazis even Dollfuss does not believe; but by appealing to the League he hopes to use it as a means of rallying France, England, and Italy behind...
...District Commissioners that Steve's stand be removed as an obstruction to traffic, that Steve, who has certain ancient and vague connections with California, was about to appeal to his Senator William Gibbs McAdoo to save his business. The First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. Mr. Early started to set the executive office machinery in motion, then abruptly halted it. The President's Negro valet, Irvin...
Wilmington, Del. is famed as the seat of the du Pont plants and patriarchy. New Castle, six miles south, an ancient and lovely architectural museum whose inhabitants still benefit from the 1,068 acres William Penn deeded them in 1701, occasionally makes a little news paragraph when the warden of the county jail legally uses his cat-o'-nine-tails on a darky chicken thief. Thirty-eight miles still farther south in Delaware is an important little town almost never heard of: Dover, founded in 1717 by William Penn on the St. Jones River...
...writer hereof is the person described in paragraph three of the article as follows: "Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago's Sterling Cleaners: I won't advise my clients to stand by these prices! Bring on your Federal officers! Bring on your trade commissioners! We don't care!' " This is as false and misleading an account of what actually transpired as anyone could possibly picture. What actually happened was as follows...
...from the symphonies of Charles Montagu Doughty to the popular ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene...