Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his "morality" lecture, the President let fly a few shafts at the "Tory" press. In response to a question, he estimated that 85% of U. S. newspapers are "Tory." When told that in a recent poll, 300 out of 800 newspapers showed pro-New Deal, he said he did not believe it. Sitting in on this press conference was Editor-Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the huge, warmly pro-Roosevelt tabloid New York Daily News. The President said he believed Mr. Patterson's paper was the only one with a large circulation that...
...Arriving in Tacoma full of beans after junketing in Alaska, PW Administrator Harold Ickes last week jumped into the intra-Democratic dogfight with an unexpected assault upon tart old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. "The reactionary press," said Mr. Ickes, "hails this 'rugged individual' as another Horatius-at-the-Bridge because of his bitter attacks on economic policies of the Government. Yet no Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed...
...this tacit invitation to Sudeten Germans to provoke an incident, the British Foreign Office issued an exceptionally stiff press communiqué saying that His Majesty's Government "welcome the conciliatory attitude displayed by the Czechoslovak Government," have hoped for a "constructive response" from the Sudeten Germans, and that "the issue by the Sudeten German Party of a proclamation relaxing the admirable discipline hitherto observed by the Sudeten Germans is therefore much deplored...
Before leaving Berlin, Premier Imrédy explained to the German press that the real purpose of the "informal agreement" at Bled was to get concessions for Hungarian minorities in neighboring states. This neatly absolved Admiral Horthy of double dealing while he was accepting Hitler's hospitality, made it appear that he was trying to do the same thing as his host, get minority concessions out of Czechoslovakia...
...legend of the Women in Black was more Hollywood than ever. Russell Birdwell, chief press-agent for Selznick International, told a story: Ten years ago, when he was producing one-reelers on the Hollywood scene, he paid a blonde young lady $5 to pose by the Valentino tomb. The story of the annual visit he made up out of his own head. When the first Woman in Black showed up next year with her bunch of red roses, no one was more surprised than Russell Birdwell...