Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters who filed into his sanctum on the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration and the first Friday in Lent, Franklin Roosevelt last week promptly announced that the proper lead for the story he was about to give them was this psalm, which he had just heard read at St. John's Episcopal Church. Furthermore, said the Harvard Crimson's onetime chief, make-up editors should put it at the top of the page...
...Department of Labor's 25th anniversary dinner, a message from the President to Madam Secretary Perkins was read aloud. Excerpt: "Today there is general recognition that there should be a floor to wages and a ceiling to hours...
Last week oldsters rubbed their eyes when, picking up their morning papers, they read about Jim Lightbody winning a 600-yd. run and setting a new meet record. It was not triple-Olympic Champion Jim Lightbody. to be sure, but his son, a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, running in the Quadrangular (Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell) Meet at Boston...
...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...surroundings as did Better Times, published monthly since December by the "Communist Party Units of the New York Times.'" Though it is unlikely that there are more than a handful of Communist Party members among the capitalistic Times's 3,000-odd employes, Better Times is eagerly read by hundreds of chuckling readers, times employes gobble up such vilifying stories as these in the current issue: "SpeedUp and Spies Drive Ad Solicitors," "Mexican Cabinet Officer Attacks Times Stories as Deliberate Lies; Sees Paper Helping Oil Companies...