Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first of his bi-weekly press conferences, he blamed the increased 1937-38 deficit on Congressional appropriations, said he expected next year's budget balance to be achieved without new or increased taxes. At his second press conference, he repeated "for about the 200th time" that next year's budget would be balanced...
...temporary mainsail has been the Soil Conservation Act, discovered in the New Deal's legal lazaretto by two smart Washington correspondents, Felix Belair Jr. of the New York Times and James Russell Wiggins of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Patched by Congress with amendments, it enabled Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to deliver the checks the Farmers wanted-a maximum $400,000,000 worth annually. Whether it has conserved $400,000,000 worth of U. S. soil annually has been beside the political point. But one thing the Soil Conservation Act has not been: an effective tool for crop control...
...airs played over the track's public address system. Loudly demanding evidence of "insurrection" to justify the martial law, the Star-Tribune sent reporters and photographers to the track in the effort to show there was none. The Star-Tribune shortly changed its cry to "freedom of the press" when its emissaries' passes were withdrawn, one newshawk was escorted from the track by troopers with drawn bayonets...
Meanwhile United Press Correspondent Jack Belden managed to reach the field headquarters of "100 Victories" Wei somewhere in Shansi-his messages via the headquarters radio not saying where. "General Wei is as cold as a Shansi winter wind," radioed Mr. Belden. "He came from behind a sea of maps to grant the curtest interview I have ever...
Meanwhile "Germans" in the Republic of Czechoslovakia were being egged on by the official Berlin press to demand "autonomy." There were even lurid rumors in Prague that Nazis were scheming the assassination of Czechoslovak President Dr. Eduard Benes. He, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," cracked out activity in Czechoslovakia by prohibiting for the time being political meetings of any party in the republic...