Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic Frank Murphy, Governor-reject of Michigan, to be his Attorney General (see col. 3); that the Pan-American Conference at Lima, so largely the creature of Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, was praised last week by L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope's daily, after the totalitarian press had belittled it. The significance of these things, planned or unplanned, was that events appeared to be rapidly creating a community of interest between democracies and the Vatican...
...Harvard University Press acted immediately on the designation of Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, to occupy a seat on the Supreme-Court by sending his eminently successful book, "Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court," into a fourth large printing...
...appointment provided the controlled Nazi press with new fuel for its vituperative accusation that the President is under the domination of a Jewish clique...
...into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according to the Mexican Railway, four or five dead, 30 injured...
...Mexico City, the Government press bureau announced that Mexicans may now telegraph complaints direct to President Lázaro Cárdenas, free of charge...