Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus: he is a plodding, middle-of-the-road legislator of the type which flourishes in contemporary Ohio, where Labor, Farmers, Pensioners all press hard on politicians. Chief idiosyncrasy, which he shares with his colleague Vic Donahey : chewing...
Publicity gags of press agents are always good for another picture when Hollywood production schedules are lagging. Latest edition of this stock subject is "Garden of the Moon." Even the angle adopted here, the creation of a fake Indian maharaja to help plug an unknown orchestra, is anything but the result of a brilliant inspiration. Fortunately, the action frequently moves at a fast and funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type...
...condemnation of the Cambridge City Council's current attack on Harvard would not only be adding to the plethora of frantic phrases already heaped on the incident, but would be providing additional fodder with which to keep alive in the press a biased and sensational publicity story so strongly tinged with politics and so little concerned with academic matters that it deserves the speediest possible interment...
...Press Had Field...
...lighter side, the Boston press took the resolution exactly as the Council hoped it would--as a big news story. It was played up all day, with most of the papers discussing what "Harvard City" would do as a municipality, what "Harvard City" would do as a municipality, what officers it would have, and what area the "city" would include...