Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear their private reports on industrial conditions. Of late these callers have been confiding to the President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the White House they repeated their laments in the hearings of newshawks. Last week in so reliable a Republican print as the New York Herald Tribune President Hoover was depicted as waging a stiff backstage "struggle" to uphold his pay policy "in the face of a strong movement in financial circles" to cut wages. His visitors came away with the impression that the President thought that if wages could...
Congress v. Budget, President Hoover's statement which implied that Congress was in the habit of overstepping his budget figures stirred critical resentment at the Capitol. Good Hoover Republican though he is, Washington's Senator Jones. Appropriations Committee chairman, rushed into print with a statement defending Congress against the implicit charge of extravagance. He pointed out that it had reduced the President's own estimates of expenditures this year by $27,000,000, and last year by $23,000,000. Other Senators accused the President of being "unfamiliar with the facts" and trying to build up public...
...presentable paper. Not only does it give one an opportunity to display his reasoning power, but likewise the factual knowledge acquired in this way is usually of a more enduring nature. The impartial selection of theses gives men of all fields an opportunity to see their name in print and draws the work of numerous departments together in a common publication...
...heard nothing like it since I was a boy on the farm. That was down in Maine, though. Anyway, these bells seem to ring whenever I feel like lying down and taking a nap. And they are a nuisance, sir, a public nuisance. I want you to print this letter in your newspaper and maybe that will do something to stop this confounded dingle-dangle for thats all it is. Truly 'yours.' "Veteran...
...last week the Police Department, smothered with a plethora of "leads," was unable to produce a single clue to the woman's death. Meantime, enterprising newspapers were able to print "true stories" of the whole case with only a few names omitted for libel's sake. When the wheels of justice seemed incapable of budging in the Bischoff case, conscientious citizens began to think that the legal machinery of their town had been allowed to grow rusty with disuse, that it was high time that an investigation be made higher up. Fortnight ago, the City Club, a potent civic organization...