Word: roome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Presidential press conferences are usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel...
Dwight Ellis' Maridor Kennels near Longmeadow, Mass, are a canine Waldorf-Astoria, with a lounge, an infirmary, a grooming room. Each dog has an individual concrete run and a little canvas-quilted cot. One of its walls carries a plaque with the names of the A. K. C. champions Dwight Ellis has raised. Judging by Daro's first showing, it will soon bear the name of DARO OF MARIDOR, first setter to win best in show at the Westminster, first American-bred to win since...
...their news needs, the better labor papers rely on Federated Press, a non-profit labor news agency. When the great 1919 steel strike broke, labor news coverage was so undependable that 32 labor editors met in Chicago and founded Federated Press. Today, from a crowded single room a block off the radical vortex, Manhattan's Union Square, Federated's News Editor Harold Coy supplies news, features, comics and New York Times'?, Wide World pictures to 145 papers. Other chief agency for labor news is independent International Labor News Service, which usually sees things...
...meeting planned for next Thursday at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room, a committee will present two diverging reports on the proposed revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Debate will proceed on the basis of amendments offered by the committee and on others introduced from the floor...
...general business meeting held in Lowell House Common Room last night, the Debating Council selected new officers and outlined plans for the coming season...