Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damp as possible, the messes of every British ship prepared long pink rows of Singapore Gin Slings for U. S. officers.* The city of Singapore and the British Government voted 2,000 Straits dollars ($1,200) for the entertainment of the U. S. crews. Wrote the Singapore Free Press: "The most casual observer can see that the decision to send three American cruisers to Singapore was actuated by more than a desire to repeat those goodwill visits which have featured Singapore's naval life in recent years...
...spectators' seats by a group of English clergymen who had arrived headed by the Bishop of Chichester was promptly rejected. Soon even Dr. Niemoller's three lawyers had been sworn not to say a word about the trial to anyone outside the court. Meanwhile, the whole German press obediently printed not a line in which the German people could read anything about the trial or even that it was taking place. After the first few days, Berlin representatives of the comparatively privileged foreign press had extreme difficulty gleaning what was going on in court. Secret police swarmed...
Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...
...alms bags. Such bags, stretched on wooden frames, contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...last week the head pressman at the Baltimore Evening Sun took a quick squint at one of the first copies of his paper, excitedly stopped the press and came bounding upstairs to demand: "Hey! What's the matter with the editorial page...