Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...quietly, departed from the Court the man whose appointment to it by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 shocked every then living ex-president of the American Bar Association including William Howard Taft; raised a storm in Senate and press that echoed long after he took his seat on the bench. Mr. Taft later apologized to Mr. Brandeis for doing him a "grave injustice." But many of his contemporaries lived and died in the belief that Louis Brandeis, the "People's Lawyer" of Boston where he practiced for 37 years, the courtroom David against the industrial and financial Goliaths...
Later on, M. Bonnet set out to sabotage the Daladier fight talk. In an "off-the-record" lecture to nine French political reporters, some well-known in Paris as tipsters for foreign embassies, the Foreign Minister censured the French press for its treatment of the "Italian question," warned that it would bring Italian bombs "on our heads" and declared, in effect, that there was much to be said for the Italian claims to Tunisia, Corsica, Djibouti, the Suez Canal...
...points, and opened his season this year with a 123-point performance against W. and J. But in view of Greenhood's 124 points against the Providence Boys Club Wednesday, the contest ought to be about as close as can be. Miller, of Navy, a 90-point man, may press Chet Sagenkahn for third...
...dimensioned pool which will not permit a 50-yard race to be swum. It has to be a 60, and rumor has it that this race is negotiated across the pool at that. Wager and Englander are the Middies who will handle the sprints. They are not expected to press Jim Curwen...