Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic question the U. S. press immediately asked was: had this Democratic President made any commitments comparable to the moral ones assumed by the last Democratic President with regard to "foreign entanglements"? To his full height in the Senate rose young Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson and namesake of one of the men who drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge...
...bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver to obscure New York issues...
Baseball officially opened in the eyes of the press and the University athletics yesterday afternoon when the call went out for battery candidates for the Varsity nine. But the newly appointed head coach started work with his pitchers and catchers immediately following the football season...
...Herr Hitler served notice that in the future all attacks from foreign countries would be brought to the attention of the German people and answered in the German press. He attacked as "apostles of war" Alfred Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill, British statesmen, and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Complained the Führer...
...Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., the 150-year-old workshop of Frederic William Goudy, No. 1 U. S. type designer, caught fire and burned to a cinder. Destroyed were: the press on which William Morris printed his Kelmscott Chaucer; the specially made precision instruments with which Goudy made the matrices for his type; his stock of 3,000 to 4,000 matrices. Twenty of his most-famed type faces (he has designed 107)* never having been cast, can never be reproduced. Said 73-year-old Frederic Goudy: "A body blow...