Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half the Mormon Church has made desperate efforts to find jobs for its members and keep them off relief. But in Salt Lake City, 81 -year-old President Heber Jeddy Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruefully stroking his beard, last week told the press that the biggest obstacle to his security program is the willingness of Latter-day Saints to be seduced by Government checks. The No. 1 Mormon admitted that he now has to be content with urging his charges who take WPA jobs to give an honest day's work. Sighed...
...morning the news came out, the President held one of his regular press conferences. Vexed, he proceeded to read the press a sermon. The report (said Mr. Roosevelt) was essentially cockeyed. There had been a deal of misinformation about Britain's famed Trade Disputes Act and how it works. So, out of the kindness of his heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before...
...Bombs. At a Washington press conference Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles read a Roosevelt-approved moral indignation statement condemning "ruthless bombing of unfortified localities" as "barbarous." Significantly added was the statement that the U. S. still adhered to a non-intervention policy. Night before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speaking in Nashville, declared that the U. S. was willing to join in a conference at The Hague for "humanizing" war practices. To an English invitation to America to join in the bombings investigating committee, the U. S. seemed likely to decline, however...
Mediator Chamberlain was represented as believing it possible: 1) that Fiihrer Adolf Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...even to his loyal half-sister-in-law, Lady Austen Chamberlain, widow of the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Austen Chamberlain (see cut), the Prime Minister's mediation talk taxed the patience of Laborites and Liberals. The whole thing was probably best explained by United Press as a gesture designed to appease the rising ire of the British public and released to a pro-Government press for British consumption only...