Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship's personnel. . . . Instead, they made themselves thoroughly objectionable, with the exception of two charming families who, by the way, did not mix with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them on a German boat, were noisy during concerts and made as free with others' deck chairs and rugs as with their own. It may sound petty, but over a week of constant bad manners gets on your nerves...
...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...
Miners and operators alike knew what this meant: Franklin Roosevelt not only endorsed John Lewis' demands for a union shop*but invited operators and their district associations to break ranks, sign as a public duty. If they refused, the Administration would back John Lewis in the resultant...
...means of overcoming his liability he has a record of overt loyalty to the New Deal. Never in public has he spoken anything but praise of the great idol of the people, Franklin Roosevelt. But those who do not love the New Deal's economic experiments do not need to be told that he is more conservative than the New Deal. He thus has a foot in both camps, Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt. If by playing old-fashioned politics with his cards close to his necktie a man can become President in 1940, Jim Farley...
Last remaining big diplomatic job before Britain and France complete their Peace Front (labeled "Encirclement" in Germany) is to sign up Soviet Russia. After weeks of bargaining in secret, both the British and Russians made public their positions, which proved to be not so far apart as pessimistic Britons had feared...