Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When I picked up TIME [Jan. 10] this morning to read the Post story I was disturbed about one omission. There was no mention of Larry Kritcher, the assistant art editor...
Such were the words Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to Speaker William Bankhead, such the words Speaker Bankhead read to the House just before it voted on the Ludlow Resolution, calling for a national referendum before declaring war. The letter served its purpose perfectly. The resolution, brought up at the height of the Panay crisis (TIME, Dec. 27), was sent back to committee, presumably to stay, by a vote...
...Before taking up the budget of the next fiscal year (1939) in a special message read to Congress last week the President reviewed the budget for fiscal 1938 ending next June. Revising his figures on the current budget for the fourth time since he predicted a "layman's balance" a year ago, President Roosevelt estimated receipts at $6,320,000,000, expenditures at $7,408,000,000. Result: a 1938 net deficit of $1,088,000,000. The change in the past year from an estimated balance to a billion-dollar deficit was caused largely by an overestimate...
...People read the magazines primarily for entertainment. There are other important reasons, too-they read to have their ideas confirmed and their emotions ratified, to have their phantasy life stimulated, and to increase their knowledge of the minor sanctions and rituals of society but first of all they want to be amused...
Before a manuscript is accepted by the Post, all its editors (except the second-class manuscript reader) read it and write comments on the envelope it comes in- "O. K.," "Sure," "You're crazy," "Don't want it," "Revamp the lead." The final veto or acceptance is Editor Stout's. Because of office interruptions, he does most of his copyreading at home at night, consequently works almost twice the hours of anyone else on the staff. He still travels. Only a few weeks ago he got back from seeing how things were in Texas...