Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EDITOR OF LOS ANGELES RECORD I ASK CORRECTION OF STATEMENT IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF PAGE THIRTY AUGUST FIFTH ISSUE THAT QUOTE LOCAL NEWSPAPER LONG FOES OF LABOR UNIONISM CONTINUED TO SUPPRESS NEWS UNQUOTE STOP WHILE AMBIGUOUS THIS EVIDENTLY WAS MEANT TO AND WOULD BE READ AS INCLUDING ALL NEWSPAPERS STOP LOS ANGELES RECORD MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL SIX ENGLISH DAILIES HAS NEVER BEEN QUOTE FOE OF LABOR UNIONS UNQUOTE AS ANY LABOR LEADER CAN TELL YOU STOP LIKEWISE IT HAS NOT SUPPRESSED NEWS OF EQUITY STRUGGLE BUT HAS FULLY PROMINENTLY AND FEARLESSLY PRESENTED NEWS OF BOTH SIDES STOP ASK FRANK...
...Hoover's time. Secretary George Akerson eyed them sharply, asked who they were, what they wanted. They explained: they represented a national association opposed to blue laws. Leading them was Spencer M. de Golier, thrice Mayor of Bradford, Pa., Vice President of N. A. O. B. L. They had read about how a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance had called last month upon President Hoover to urge him to support blue law legislation for Washington (TIME, July 22). Now in protest came they of the N. A. O. B. L. to pray the President to refuse such support...
...Kentucky's Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making that Great Britain has now reached the limit of bearing unfair burdens have all of our support...
...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...