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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Press has been guilty of a falsification of the actual facts. If called upon to give the source of the information, they will decline to give it. ... The fact remains that the story is contrary to every fact. ... I am calling this to the attention of the public because it represents a culmination of other false news stories to which the attention of the United Press has been called by me and by my office on previous occasions. . . . This latest episode . . . represents the limit of any decent person's patience...
...make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case, we ask you to serve as mediator." Paul Smith did, and settled the strike...
...murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged with disturbing public religious worship, but conducted his own defense, examined himself and Dr. Norris (who was not present), won instant acquittal on the ground that the services did not constitute religious worship...
Married. Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 32, and Elizabeth Marvin, 32. public-school teacher; on the first anniversary of his take-off for Ireland; in San Antonio...
...Federal Reserve economic troubleshooter, Currie quickly won recognition inside political brain-picking circles. But not till May 1939 (via his becharted Temporary National Economic Committee testimony on capital investment) did nation-wide public recognition come for his analytical prowess...