Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt Joe Kennedy saw last week was not the fractious, irritated, harried man who sat at the same cluttered desk last summer. A remarkable change has come over the President: once again he is relaxed, confident, charming. Gone is his captious attitude to the U. S. press. Old Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington columnists, noted the change a month ago, hopefully analyzed the President's bubbly jocularity as a signal he has decided not to run again...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...
...Declared healthiest 4-H specimens were "four strong boys and two comely girls" (Warren Cales, 18, Sandstone, W. Va.; Richard Crane, 17, Rushville, Ind.; Carlisle Klein, 18, Black River Falls, Wis.; Leslie Warrant, 16, Kasota, Minn.; Ruth Fitzenreiter, 16, Bel, La., and Joann Parks. 15. Liberty, Ind.). An invigorating press release announced that all six drink milk and eat plenty of vegetables, added pointedly that five drink "no coffee" (exception: Joann...
...great big, graceful, healthy girl," Miss Eunice Allman, who explained that her work consists in "soothing bruised egos," begged, "If you're writing about us, don't make us out to be the scum of the earth. We're not so bad." In general the press survey went far toward confirming Sir John Anderson's evident feeling that there can be nothing very awful about even such ostentatiously "lowlife" dives as the Nut Club in Greek Street so long as its regular patrons continue to include such people as Mrs. Anthony Eden...
Surprised by the cleverness of Finland's preparations, Russia's press exploded in wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth. . . . Hardly had the first Red fighter set foot on Finnish soil when an explosion rent the air-a mine! Mines are everywhere." Even the Russian soldiers were indignant. Writer Virta quoted one as saying: "What cads! . . . They are masters of foul play. How well they make such nastiness...