Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Mueller has been lucky. It is true that Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales, began teasing the present Queen Elizabeth by calling her "Queen Elizabeth" directly after she married the Duke of York in 1923. TIME reported the practice May 9, 1932. For years a few people in England took half-seriously the report that Edward might decide never to come to the throne, but available evidence indicates that nobody expected Edward to become King and then make such a mess as to render abdication his cleanest...
...week newspapers dished up incidents from Mrs. Muench's past. At police headquarters they found a rogues' gallery portrait of Nellie Muench taken in 1919 when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning a fake jewelry store holdup. News photographers dogged her footsteps, snapped her picture as she swore lustily at them. Once she carried a bag of flour which she sprinkled...
Next day Manhattan's police commissioner demanded a report from four police precincts which meet at the spot to determine why no patrolman had reached the scene during the several minutes the battle had lasted. Reflected M. Mathis, who obligingly detailed and diagrammed his adventure for the press: "If they had employed more politeness and gone about things more reasonably, they might have succeeded. If they had immediately produced revolvers I would have instructed my wife to hand over her jewels, preferring not to take the risk of being shot. Moreover the jewels were insured. But they attacked...
Cracked President Frank: "Those are the kind of things you can hear at any major university in the country. . . . Moreover, [Mr. Wilkie's report] is shot through with inaccuracies. I have no intention of presenting my resignation...
...this point the Regents reefed their sails, seemed unable to proceed. After a clash over Mr. Wilkie's report that indicated the anti-Frank section was in the majority, they voted 9 to 6 to give Glenn Frank a "public hearing" before the Legislature meets next month. At week's end Madison was ready to bet that whatever happens at his next hearing, Glenn Frank was doomed. Promptly boosted for the job were Law Dean Garrison and Rexford Guy Tugwell...