Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worst of the attitudes taken against American expressions of change and progress is that of a cheap, sensational press, of which the Boston American, especially because of its play-up of Granville Hicks, seems to be a hideous example. To increase its profits and effect the destructive editorial policy of a medievalist, the Hearst papers distort and lie about liberal activities to an audience unfortunately always ready to be deceived and aroused...
...holes along the edges enable the operator to pick out immediately and in correct order all cards for overdue books on nay particular day. For this purpose all the cards that come in during the day are stacked together and put in a press which cuts a notch in the hole corresponding to that day, after which the cards are filed in the record. Then on the days when books fall due, only three times a week this year, an operator goes through the files with a long "darning needle." He thrusts this through the holes for that...
...Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press hailed the tip as "a great ad for Mr. Annenberg's racing publications," suggested that the Inquirer "predict a daily double on the Supreme Court." In Harrisburg, Chief Justice John W. Kephart ordered a "thorough investigation." First witness was the Inquirer's able, popular city editor, Eli Zachary ("Dimmy") Dimitman. Loyally, he assumed full responsibility for the story, denied any assistance from members or officers of the court, insisted he had already been "reprimanded" by Publisher Annenberg. Second witness was Publisher Annenberg who repudiated any advance knowledge of the story, said...
...then it is Franklin Roosevelt's pleasure in his press conferences to play Professor of Economics. In this role in April 1937, he lectured that certain commodity prices were too high, thereby precipitated a world-wide break in commodity prices, the first signal of Depression II. Last February Professor Roosevelt again delivered himself on commodities, this time documenting his remark with a dozen charts which he didactically explained with a long wooden pointer. Last week "a White House Spokesman" (see p. 13) had some thoughts to express not only on commodities but on the entire economic condition...
...current business picture, it appeared to the "spokesman" that the nation's shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...