Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins' office raised his right hand and swore an oath of office read to him by Chief Clerk Samuel Gompers, son & namesake of the U. S. Labor movement's revered granddaddy.* Then Administrator Andrews held his first press conference and the U. S. Government was launched on anew activity...
Even if in these circumstances President Cárdenas' followers planned to rename him as President, their choice of a time to consider it was extraordinary, for Mexico faced a much more immediate crisis. The United Press wired from Mexico City: "One can very easily-with figures -prove that Mexico is insolvent. Quotations on the Paris Bourse show that some Tsarist Russian bonds are worth more than those of certain Mexican issues." The gold and silver reserves of the Bank of Mexico were used up last spring trying to keep the Mexican peso worth 28? . It has now crashed...
...vigorous believer in Anglo-American hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...
...twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...their daughters were making out under Bolshevism. What he saw he put into the books Red Bread, Humanity Uprooted, Broken Earth, The Great Offensive, which gave the U. S. public its first intimation that more was going on in Soviet Russia than met the eye in the Hearst press...