Word: printings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impressive though they are in print and picture, crowds do not fool the seasoned observer of politics. Any local boss, if given enough time, can organize a crowd to warm a candidate's heart. When that candidate happens to be the President of the U. S. public curiosity alone will render the boss's job relatively simple. This week the New York Times solemnly warned President Roosevelt that October crowds do not necessarily ripen into November votes, recalled the sad cases of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, both of whom drew record crowds...
...Herbert Hoover's downfall. Little did either of them then dream that in 1936 they would find themselves brothers under their hats. Yet last week Herbert Hoover, no longer President, spoke his mind in Philadelphia, and in Manhattan Raymond Moley, no longer a Braintruster, put his mind into print in Today. To their mutual astonishment they found a subject on which they agreed-arithmetic...
...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...
...Though the Associated Press and United Press occasionally mention this plague in their dispatches, they report that local editors generally blue-pencil it. Symbolic of the Press's hesitancy to take up the Parran crusade in full is the fact that in most states a person described in print as syphilitic can successfully sue for libel...
Meantime Publisher Tichenor's Tale No. 2 was hardly touched by the press which presumably regarded it as too risky to print. This tale related that at the same time the other venture was going on, just prior to and after the cancelation of the airmail contracts, Elliott Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor...