Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week some 100 Fraternity members moved out to Peace Haven to stay. Mr. Schafer (called by his disciples the Messenger) went back to Manhattan to continue his lectures. Said he comfortably to the press, "People think we're a lot of nuts...
They were the Democratic National Committee's brilliant chief press agent, Charles Michelson, whose first feat was to smear Hoover, and his G. O. P. counterpart, Franklyn Thomas Waltman Jr. Dark, 35-year-old Republican Waltman paid elaborate tribute to the libertarian legacy of Democratic Patron Saint Thomas Jefferson, worked himself into oratorical fervor: "We recall Jefferson's words tonight, not solely out of academic interest in a mighty battle which was won in behalf of the liberties of Americans, but because once again in this country, as abroad, freedom of press and freedom of speech is under...
...over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot; later expressing his interest in Joe's defending...
...decided recently his business needed more cash, applied to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a loan of $10,000. After an audit of his books, pro-Administration Publisher McAndrew was turned down. Reason: an RFC loan to a newspaper might be construed as a Government effort to influence the press politically...
Last week, the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs at Charlottesville heard two speeches on freedom of the press from two men whose speeches are usually delivered by others and whose major concern is freedom of publicity...