Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected, isolationist outbursts in the press (notably Hearst's) and Congress were evoked by the President's promise of U. S. participation in a world disarmament and economic conference. But a Gallup poll revealed that 73% of the U. S. people "would like to see the heads of the leading nations" confer...
...Columnist Igor Cassini of the Washington Times-Herald printed a categorical denial by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. that there was any truth in persistent Virginia gossip that he and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were planning to divorce. Same day Franklin Roosevelt Sr. asked the press to let him make a trip to visit his son & daughter-in-law and F. D. R. Ill (aged nine months) at Charlottesville as "Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones"-i. e. without reporters. The correspondents were sorry: "Mr. Jones" would still be President of the U. S., they must go along...
...Part of the British press last week deplored Their Majesties' decision to take the Repulse instead of a liner, because 1) the accommodations, though ingenious, are not too comfortable; 2) "We need all our warships here for the purpose of defense...
Leontief held that it is the attitude of business which counts and that we need a conservative press to change this attitude...
...Revealed. Ludwig Fulda, 77, famed German dramatist, novelist, poet, translator; in Berlin last month. Before the World War Fulda lectured in the U. S. as an exponent of German culture. Recently Nazis forced him to change his name to Ludwig Israel Fulda. Because he was a Jew, the Aryan press did not even report his death...