Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once Homer Bone brought a case of Alaskan salmon to the press gallery at the Capitol, invited the newsmen there to help themselves. They tried to, but could not remove the tightly bound wire around the case, whereupon Homer Bone made a sardonic and highly characteristic remark. Said he: "Do you mean that with all the knockers around here you fellows haven't got a hammer...
There came the plunge into war with Cuba, Baxter went on, which the British press applauded by praising our humanitarian sentiments, while hoping that our abandonment of isolation would bring alliance. Climax of the progress toward friendship between the nations, Baxter concluded, was Great Britain's concession in 1901, which sanctioned America's building of the Panama Canal and at the same time signified for England a diplomatic break-up with Germany...
...meditates five or six books, but an art reviewer often has to view and comment on as many as 40 shows. His hurried kindnesses (Mr. Devree's in particular) are notorious. Since no artist who is worth his salt gives a damn whether he gets a nice "press" or not, this absence of criticism chiefly benefits the art business...
...Such Sweet Compulsion-Greystone Press...
After Colonel Beck's return to Warsaw there were hints in the Polish press that King Carol had threatened to move troops in defense of Czechoslovakia in case Hungary should try to take what she wanted by force. King Carol with a characteristic flourish announced he had been "deeply touched" by a petition from 50,000 Rumanians of Ruthenian blood who begged His Majesty not to let Hungary have Ruthenia...