Word: reading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Butler's enjoying this jest, those of us who have been exposed to Mr. Powell's pungent blasphemy doubt whether the Justice ever could have read anything written by the Professor...
...years in the White House, when he had had trouble sleeping, it had been Mr. Hoover's habit to turn on the light and read for an hour or two-reading methodically through all the works on a particular period in the history of Egypt, all the volumes of Hakluyt's Voyages-as if he hoped to calm his mind with facts. Back at Stanford he prowled through the massive accumulation of facts in the Hoover War Library-the extraordinary collection then stored away in the basement of the Stanford library, with 175,000 books and pamphlets...
...left the White House, he said: "What do I do all day? I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into the Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and read the newspapers. Then I take another long look down the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California...
...November 30 a front-page Daily Worker feature read, Another Soviet clarion call for peace was made today by Joseph Stalin." The next day, December 1, the Worker's headline was, RED ARMY HURLS BACK INVADING FINNISH TROOPS, CROSSES BORDER, while the Times said, FINNS' CABINET RESIGNS AS SOVIET MOMBS CITIES; NEW GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO SEEK A TRUCE; 200 ARE KILLED. The next day a feature headline in the Worker asked, "Why did the Times censor the facts on Finland...
...branded as completely false. But the wording of headlines and the rating of "news" stories make a mockery of the impartiality promised by newspapers. It is under these conditions that each morning millions of Americans who are uneducated to the poison of propaganda sit down to read their daily papers...