Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
Died. William F. Warnecke, 59, New York World-Telegram photographer, whose famed picture scoop of the attempted assassination of Mayor William J. Gaynor (see cut) won him (26 years later) the 1936 Press Photographers' Award; on vacation...
...good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
...Early in May, in a recorded broadcast, President Roosevelt reminded listeners to 150 U. S local stations: "Aside from some financial as sistance, in the form of less-than-cost posta rates, the Government has supported the press chiefly by protecting its freedom...
...Star had been given the use of the Winnipeg Free Press's newsstands for the day. A special plane had left Minneapolis, 435 miles to the south, loaded down with copies of the early edition. Under an eight-column headline the Star played the story, written in advance, which it had worked so hard to promote...