Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schaper, and Matt Soltysiak, the Bruin heroes, were mobbed by wildly enthusiastic teammates, and a squadron of reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards--the man who was bearing the heaviest burden of the loss was standing erect and calm, surprisingly unruffled...
...threatened invaston of a Yardling's traditional right to walk the streets of Cambridge at all hours of the night came to naught yesterday when reports in the Boston press that the new curfew law would apply to all children 16 or under were dented by city officials...
...allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel, who resigned last month (TIME...
...Washington alone they number around 300, with salaries totaling close to $1,000,000 a year. Mimeographs whir endlessly with their press handouts, which are sorted and clipped together at electrical revolving tables, rushed by messenger to a battered table in the lobby of the National Press Club. There, any afternoon, correspondents hurrying in for a 5 o'clock whiskey & soda can run through an assortment like this...
...sort of super-press bureau, the New Deal has its so-called National Emergency Council, headed by aggressive Lowell Mellett, ex-editor of the Washington News. NEC does some ticklish inside jobs: e.g., before Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black accepted a medal from the Southern Conference for Human Welfare last November, he phoned Low Mellett to ascertain if public reaction would be favorable. This week Congressman Bruce Barton, Manhattan adman who knows a pressagent when he sees one, introduced a bill to abolish the whole NEC, charging "Its distinguished membership is only a front for a band of 290 pressagents...