Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that U. S. policy is not only avoidance of war but prevention of it in all parts of the world. Senator Borah addressed himself to the democracies whom every one now knows Franklin Roosevelt proposes to save if necessary. He flayed Foreign Minister Bonnet of France and the French press for criticizing the House's action in haltering Mr. Roosevelt. He asked what difference there was between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler, between "democracies" and "dictatorships," when ever since Munich they could all be seen serving their own selfish interests. "It is not surprising," rumbled the idol...
...unique journalistic backward step was news last week because it was taken by the 175-year-old Hartford Courant, which has the longest continuous publishing history of any paper in the U. S. The Courant has not missed an issue since Thomas Green pulled its first from a hand press on October 29, 1764. It printed the Declaration of Independence as news, numbered George Washington among the subscribers who read the lively, eye-witness war correspondence of Israel Putnam. Republican since the Connecticut branch of the party was founded in its editorial rooms by Publisher Joseph R. Hawley...
...Courant is still published within a stone's throw of Founder Green's hand press. It is now ruled in its obituary policy and otherwise by sober, stamp-collecting Publisher Henry H. Conland, who joined the paper as an office boy 39 years ago, and Editor Maurice S. Sherman, a good-natured fisherman whose editorial style is compared with that of the Courant's most famed leader writer, Mark Twain's crony, Charles Dudley Warner. Together they have helped restore respectability to the "Old Lady of State Street," who lost it briefly after the World...
...their inability to lower prices until huge new audiences are found, publishers point to Modern Age Books, which two years ago set out to publish paperbound original editions at 35? to 50?. Backed by the Richard Storrs Childs fortune, Modern Age advertised heavily, cut costs by using the Rumford Press between printings of Reader's Digest, set up elaborate distribution machinery. Its losses the first year (attributed in part to inexperience) were reported at around $500,000. Since then Modern Age prices have risen nearer the $1 level...
...Vienna, the Nazi Press suggested punishment for gypsy fortunetellers, who have taken to wishing their customers: "That you may not be sent to Dachau concentration camp and forced to hew stones." The proposed punishment: send the gypsies to Dachau...