Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...avoid misquotation, President Coolidge cables his foreign affairs speeches in advance to American embassies, for U. S. diplomats to peruse and distribute to the foreign press. To Paris thus went the Coolidge farewell speech, in which was some careful research on foreign alliances. "He [Washington] warned us to beware of permanent and political alliances," said President Coolidge. "The phrase 'entangling alliances' is not from him but from Jefferson." Taking his cue almost verbatim, Ambassador Herrick said: "Washington did not use the phrase 'entangling alliances' but warned against permanent alliances." This was no mere echo, for Mr. Herrick, in Paris, said...
Elated or dismayed, the Job-Seeker travels back to the lobby. This time he is approached and surrounded by the press, rising from benches, emerging from their cubby-hole quarters, flocking about to ply him with artful questions. He calls them "Boys" and, if wise, conceals all the President has said...
Behind the recurring cry against the college press for its paucity of sound opinion on college subjects there is a false assumption which weakens the claim. If educators, magazine writers and college editors themselves lament the lack of judgment displayed by undergraduate journals in a crisis, they are assuming that the opinion of student editors has a definite value. It is a rare thing for the opinion of a student editor to be worth more than that of any undergraduate, and this latter kind of opinion is worth very little...
Edwin Grabhorn, of the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, California, has donated to the Library several books produced by the Press under his direction...
...LAST SEPTEMBER-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press...