Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only important social event of a week in which the President's main relaxation from wrestling with a business decline consisted of making a fireside chat to encourage the unemployment census, preparing a message to what may turn out to be a balky Congress, was the National Press Club's annual dinner at which he was the guest of honor. Earlier in the week, the President was made an honorary member of the American Press Society (see p. 49), had been asked to resign by the Newspaper Guild, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member. High point...
...press the Business Manager issued the following statement...
Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...
Atlantic City's publicity-hungry Chamber of Commerce last week augmented its fat press clipping albums by staging a football game to which spectators were decorously invited to wear evening clothes. On a full-sized football field in Atlantic City's tremendous Convention Hall, Pennsylvania Military College managed to score a field goal, beat the University of Delaware 3-to-0 in the season's only in door collegiate football game...
...Hitler's confidential agent. Kurt Ludecke managed the first meeting between Hitler and Mussolini, headed the first Nazi propaganda missions abroad, the Nazi press bureau in Washington, and in I Knew Hitler now recalls the late and living Nazi leaders from the days when they could barely afford paste for posters. Into his 814-page confessions Author Ludecke dumps an amazing store of uncloseted skeletons and dirty Nazi linen. He writes in English, easily, with no accent, frequent wit. His story is the most amende and grimly absorbing Nazi confession that has yet appeared in English...