Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranked third in Washington below Lewis' and Garner's, had a reporter reread Lewis' statement to him, chuckled heartily, said aloud: "That's too eloquent for comment," then sotto voce to a nearby reporter: "It's a sinful world." (Mr. Murphy and the entire press section of the Justice Department spent the rest of that day and evening, in hasty afterthought, insisting he had not correctly understood the statement...
...House a maddened Texas delegation composed a resolution praising Garner to the skies, then hastily recalled it from the House press gallery, clipped out one sentence ("He has been a friend of labor for 30 years") and sent it back retyped. A two-minute standing ovation, with applause rent with rebel yells, came when the resolution was read in the House. Only a few New Dealers kept their seats. In the Senate word came around from Boss Garner that he wanted no speeches, demonstration or even mention of the incident...
...failure of the U. S. to take action after the sinking of the Panay convinced them there was no danger of intervention; the dispatch to Japan this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that the U.S. might one day become exasperated over the increasing number of incidents involving U.S. property and nationals...
Last week, with the sudden cancellation of the Japanese-U.S. Treaty of Commerce of 1911, the Japanese had a rude awakening. The press scarcely knew what to make of it; political leaders were reluctant to tell the people that the treaty's abrogation might well foreshadow an economic blockade. Tatsuo Kawai, the fastidious, chubby-faced Foreign Office spokesman who gives the foreign press interviews thrice weekly, called the U.S. action "unbelievably abrupt," admitted that it was "highly susceptible of being interpreted as having political significance." At first it was suggested that the U.S. might be ready to conclude...
...week the impression that he was going to make a Princess out of Harriet Mercer, a Harlem laundress whom he met on a recent visit to New York City. In a darkened salon of his Paris apartment His Highness, who already has four wives in Africa, told a United Press correspondent that he had offered to pay Miss Mercer's steamship fare and expenses to Paris only because he wanted her as a secretary and an English teacher, not as a wife...