Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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County highway patrols last week scoured the countryside around Chicago looking for a wanted man. They found him finally upon the golf course of Olympia Fields Country Club and led him, not to jail, but to a telephone. The wanted man was Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The person who wanted him, at the other end of the telephone line, was General Hugh S. Johnson. The reason the Judge was wanted: the General had just settled Chicago's Stock Yards strike (TIME...
...Tardieu called M. Chautemps a liar, an associate of criminals and a forger. He charged him with forging the stub of a Stavisky check for 300,000 francs to make it appear that this sum had been paid to a person called "Tardi," promptly assumed by the Left Press to be Tardieu. For six hours M. Tardieu's scathing attack went on. He produced little or no evidence to support his charges but vilified radical Socialist Leader Chautemps to such an extent as to involve the prestige of the Party and of Boss Herriot. Plainly M. Tardieu was playing...
...through the Galveston flood of 1900 (7,000 dead) to find a working telegraph wire, dictate a four-hour story to the New York Herald. "Cosey" Noble, Sunday editor of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, turned down several of Rudyard Kipling's now famed stories, presented in person, because "they were not up to the high literary standard of the Examiner." "Jim" Crown, city editor of the New Orleans States, locked all the doors of a church meeting which turned into a brawl and refused to admit even the police until he had noted the name of every...
...cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should it knuckle down? San Francisco Labor chose its course, to make the public and back of the public the State and back of the State the employers bow to its power. When the State in the person of Mayor Rossi in San Francisco, of Governor Merriam in Sacramento and, remote in the Pacific, of President Roosevelt, took up the challenge, the stage was set for social...
...Daltonian, of Dalton, Pa. whose Editor Thomas A. Curtis sandwiches philippics against the capitalist system between advertisements for Chevrolets, insurance, typewriters. Sample Daltonian obituary: ''Mrs. Kellog spent her life in the strictly conservative activities of a typical village matron. She was probably as happy as the average person can hope to be under our antiquated system...