Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Harried by Prohibition problems, President Hoover made a reply through the Press last week to the City Council of International Falls, Minn., which had cried "For God's sake, help us!" after the killing of Henry Virkula by a U. S. border patrolman (TIME, June 24). Declared the President: "I deeply deplore the killing of any person. The Treasury is making every effort to prevent the misuse of firearms. . . . I hope the communities along the border will do their best to help the Treasury end the systematic war that is being carried on by international criminals against the laws...
Despite the rage of Rio, the choice of demure Lisl Goldarbeiter was enthusiastically greeted elsewhere. At the sight of the slender Viennese, trembling with emotion in her green silk bathing suit, even veteran press correspondents were affected. The mother of another contestant rhapsodized...
Next to the arrival of Charles Gates Dawes in England and the proposed visit of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the U. S. (see 11), the British press was most concerned last week with the annually recurring rumor of Edward of Wales's engagement. On this occasion the reigning favorite was Princess Ingrid of Sweden, 19, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince, Gustaf Adolf. With nothing more concrete to go on than the fact that Princess Ingrid was visiting England for a month, that Edward of Wales's 35th birthday was imminent, that he once said...
Quite as brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
Undeterred, the Mexican press insisted that practical agreement had already been reached between Church and State, mentioned June 29, St. Peter's Day, as the day agreed upon for formal resumption of church services, the singing of Jubilate Deos and Te Deums...