Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the agency of their press American universities are rapidly extending the field of their usefulness in the publication of valuable books and also in periodical work. In undertaking a new review, American Literature, the Duke University Press promises an interesting addition to the branch of magazine enterprise which includes such notable examples as The Yale Review and the University of Virginia Quarterly...
...Watson: "By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any state has sent to Washington in years-a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker." But Senators pay small attention to the strictures of the press and no one can fail to recognize the high esteem which Mr. Watson enjoys in Indiana, which kept him first for twelve years in the House and then elected him to terms aggregating 16 years in the Senate. Although Mr. Watson fought Mr. Hoover in the preconvention campaign, Leader Watson and President...
...Prohibition Amendment. Hastily the press consulted the Association, but the Association did not know that Mr. Lamont had left its ranks. Mr. Lamont, asked by the press, said that he had resigned "sometime within the last six months." Later he said that a friend had once asked him to join the Association and through that friend he had forwarded his resignation. "We all do some things for friendship," he explained. Mr. Lamont's friends in Chicago were amused. Said Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals: "We Methodists believe in repentance...
...plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan is printed, numerous compositors set portions of an article that were "meaningless fragments" to them. Only Printer Cuneo and his chief assistant had been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant...
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