Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...
...German press considered the speech a masterpiece. Deeds, no longer words, would be the order. The Essen National Zeitung gloated: "The moment has come in which the war desired by England must rain down in full force upon the British Isles themselves." But early this week precipitation...
...this week there was no body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on Government contracts by successful rival contractors...
...this symphony of common sense, a not quite harmonious note is added by stock market reports such as this United Press dispatch of October 22: "The possibility that the stock list may embark upon a new forward drive was enhanced over the weekend by Germany's decision to intensify the war. Last week stock prices climbed to within striking distance of the 1939 peaks on indications that peace moves had failed." Disillusion grows with the reading of a pamphlet of the New York investment firm of Bonner and Bonner: "We believe that sound steel stocks, purchased around current levels, will...
...John Selby - Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A picturesque, sentimental, occasionally tedious first novel which won the $1,000 prize money as U. S. entry in a cosmic contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition ($15,000). The author, 39, is a syndicate book reviewer for the Associated Press. The hero is a fat, rugged-individualist newspaper publisher, the background obviously Kansas City...