Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next press conference the President modified his resistance. He called one more tax revision conference, including Pat Harrison and John Hanes, but emphasized that any course they took must: i) produce no less revenue than the present laws, 2) provide some way of preventing corporate profit hoarding...
...last week to do the tough job of picking 1,300 names (900 in Washington, 400 throughout the land) to receive invitations thus worded under the seal & cipher of George Rex and Elizabeth. Her great name-choosing task ended, Lady Lindsay consented at last to receive the press and explain how her guests must behave...
...Congress the President sent his second installment of Reorganization, which was speedily approved (see p. 19). > Cutting out Adolf Hitler for the affections of Argentina is a project high on Franklin Roosevelt's "must" list. Last week he discussed at press conference a letter which he wrote to Secretary of State Hull last month. The subject: Argentine canned corned beef. To Mr. Hull the President said that the Buy American Act* would not be violated if the Navy Department were to accept the bid of Argentine Meat Producers Cooperative (a Government subsidy) to supply 48,000 Ibs. of corned...
...refused reasonable requests for information on such occasions as the visit of Anthony Eden. Even visiting British sobsisters who were received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House found Lady Lindsay too busy to receive them at the British Embassy. Last week frosty-haired Lady Lindsay prepared the press for the goodwill visit of the King and Queen by commenting on the bad manners of the U. S. press as she told them how Americans would have to behave. The newshens answered her back, unimpressed by the fact that she was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, heiress of the late Colgate Hoyt...
...philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated Jim Farley's truck...