Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paternalism at Lafayette may seem but slight; its significance lies in its marked agreement with a policy already casting its shadow over American college life. Whether it be the banning of automobiles for university students, the appointment of athletic captains and managers by coaches, the censoring of the student press, or just the classroom training of extra-curricular leaders, the effect is the same, a blow at self-reliance...
...with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission-such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press Association was incorporated under the laws of Delaware with headquarters in Manhattan...
...CHICAGO TRIBUNE WORLDS GREATEST NEWSPAPER WANTS YOU AS ITS EDITOR IN CHIEF AND AS THE PRESS STATES YOU ARE CONSIDERING NEWSPAPER WORK THE TRIBUNE WILL PAY YOU A SALARY OF SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR TO START (STOP) YOUR POLICIES AND THOSE OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARE SO ENTIRELY IN HARMONY WITH EACH OTHER THAT YOU WOULD FEEL AT HOME ON THIS PAPER (STOP) THIS OFFER IS MADE IN THE UTMOST GOOD FAITH AND A GUARANTEE ENDORSED BY EVERY NATIONAL BANK IN CHICAGO WILL ASSURE YOU OF THE EARNESTNESS OF THIS OFFER (STOP) CHICAGO IS THE MOST HEALTHFUL...
...soft formality of that statement expresses something in Commander Byrd which the press, while hailing his exploits scientific and otherwise, has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife's name, is recorded on the map of the world...
Flyer LeBrix was the more forehanded in the race. He took off from the Istres Airdrome near Marseilles, long before dawn of a freezing day last week. He was well over the Mediterranean towards Tunis when press despatches reached Flyer Costes at Paris...