Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart to leave fingerprints and tell-tale cigaret butts around . . . too tough to be bulldozed and too smart to be tricked." How, then, could the mystery be solved? Last week Mr. Lippman found his answer: analysis...
Conard Siepp, secretary of the Yale Peace Council, said that Browder was being invited to speak at Yale because his civil liberties have been attacked by the other two members of the collegiate Big Three, according to the United Press...
...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...
Through the past year the Cambridge division has spent its time in studying such problems as the status of science in Nazi Germany; the boycotting of German-manufactured goods; the relations of scientists to the press and radio; socialized medicine; and consumers' organizations, especially the Consumers' Union...
...America, but he is not walking quietly. Commissioned by Congress to investigate un-American activities, Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...