Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papers, edited by Judge Samuel Rosenman, in five volumes. Three weeks ago, the President announced sale of the prefaces to the Papers to Liberty Magazine, of notes on the Papers to United Feature Syndicate. Last week, it developed that Liberty was also going to publish stenographic transcriptions of Presidential press conferences, also included in the State Papers. What total price the President received was not officially revealed, but it was reported about as much as his annual salary...
...Dreadnoughts. The Naval experts' reply to the Maverick attacks on the battleship as a weapon is simply that they are not true. Day after Mr. Maverick dropped his bomb, a retort was fired by Franklin Roosevelt, a lover, like his top admirals, of big ships. He told a press conference that he had been studying Naval reports, secret and otherwise since 1913, and that, if he had concluded therefrom that battleships were obsolete, he would not have recommended building new ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons, the President said...
Walter Crane's "Hazelford Sketch Book" with many samples from the originals in the Widener Library, will be published today by the John Barnard Associates through the Harvard University Press...
...From The Press Table...
Last week, accompanied by 11-year-old Ann Gillis, a green-eyed, red-haired veteran of eleven pictures, Tommy was back in Manhattan. Together the pair had curtsied to the press, spoken over the radio, journeyed to Elmira, N. Y. to lay a wreath on Mark Twain's grave. Back home, Tommy sighed, "Give me The Bronx any time." But The Bronx was not the same: the fan mail was already starting to come in. Wrote one: "I heard you on the radio last night and I am looking forward to seeing your picture very much. It was very...