Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...
...Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt, and used to intimidate, harass and smear employers opposed by the C. I. O." Chicago is 144 miles from Madison. At week's end the Tribune and its publisher. Robert R. ("Freedom of the Press") McCormick. had given no sign of hearing or accepting the challenge...
...Pittsburgh woman snatched up a bottle of poison, screamed "I'd rather die this way than like that." Her husband stopped her. A man telephoned the New York Times from Dayton, Ohio to find out exactly when the world was coming to an end. The Associated Press got out a reassuring bulletin...
...roars of laughter. Victor Moore wowed the audience in the role of a dumbbell U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The pretty Goodhue girls revived memories of the Florodora Sextet. The box office had counted up a huge $25,000 for the week, and the show's press-agent remarked: "I've never seen a show run so smoothly before it reached Broadway...
...editorial staff of the Memphis Press-Scimitar was recalled to its office to get out an extra edition on the bombing of Chicago, St. Louis, the threatened bombing of Memphis. A brave Californian telephoned Oakland police that he was prepared to go East and repel the invader. In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save it from the enemy. Pious Virginians telephoned the Richmond Times-Dispatch that they were praying...