Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a man, 73, marries a woman, 23, the press is interested. When, in 1914, the man happened to be scandalously rich old-time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker...
Nevertheless the 23-year-old Mrs. Croker had faced photographers before. Once she had ridden bareback round the stage of the Hippodrome singing Indian love songs. Promptly she issued a mimeographed statement to the press: "It is the ambition of every Indian girl to win a Chief, and I have won the Chief...
...Indian bric-a-brac, now a tumbled ruin, were auctioned off to Crown Corp. for $252,000, none of which will end in the hands of Mrs. Croker. A remaining 9,500 ft. of Palm Beach waterfront will be sold next month. Last week Mrs. Croker wailed to-the press: "I have no place to go. ... I have spent every penny I ever...
...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...
...this meant that brutally invaded China was rallying strongly last week, apparently united more closely than ever. Renewed confidence at Nanking brought enthusiastic Chinese press stories, to be accepted with reserve, which boasted that erstwhile Chinese Communist troops had recaptured in Shansi the Yenman Pass and the Pingshing Pass and "trapped 50,000 Japanese." Apparently the Chinese troops were staging effective guerrilla raids in territory which nominally has been "conquered" by Japan, and such harassing tactics may prove the best against an invader who last week had advanced so far that the various lines of military supply Japan must keep...