Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt at pinning Jimmy Hines had ended in a mistrial and given the defense a complete preview of his case, although his star witness. Numbers Racketeer George Weinberg, had committed suicide before he could be brought back to the stand, Tammanyman Hines and his counsel had seemed unable to press their advantage. Nevertheless, even confident Tom Dewey was pleasantly surprised when the jury returned less than seven hours after it went out. His smile broke into a relieved grin as to each of the 13 counts in the Hines indictments the jury's foreman, a meat salesman, Leonard...
Some measure of free speech exists in Poland and most of the time the Government tolerates an opposition press. The right of assembly cannot be said to be denied. All Poles over 24 vote for the Sejm, lower house of Parliament, and, most paradoxical for a semi-dictatorship, there are cities in Poland which have Socialist mayors and councils...
...George Washington's Birthday dinner at the American Club in Paris, attended by the Duke of Windsor and such top-notch French bigwigs as Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin, Mr. Bullitt replied to German and Italian press charges that the U. S. was trying to start a war. With intentional and significant emphasis the Ambassador said: "We are not in the habit of starting wars...
...Wrote the Führer: "In Germany before the war, in the schools, in the press and in the comic newspapers, one gradually created an impression of the character of the Englishman, and perhaps more even of his empire, which was bound to lead to the most disastrous self-deception. This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital. ... I remember how astounded were the faces of my comrades when for the first time we met the Tommy face to face in Flanders...
Last week the Columbia University Press completed a monumental ten-year job-reprinting in 22 facsimile volumes (price $88) a complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash...