Word: scans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American President," cried the Russian President, "acts like an illiterate peasant in the fields waiting for heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity while the present regime only increases the starvation of millions of people." Observers turned from such Soviet birthday talk to scan the Soviet record: Russia's 15 Red Years began with a prelude on Oct. 26, 1917 when slender, semitic, smouldering-eyed Leon Trotsky (né Bronstein) harangued the existing Petrograd workers' Soviet (council) into passing a resolution that Trotsky & Friends should take supreme military command, replacing Alexander Kerensky's wavering authority...
...Roosevelt continued to concentrate on the returns, the living figures of the votes of the people for him-him-to be President. A double row of girls lined the long table in front of him, their pencils flashing over sheets of paper which they passed up for him to scan. He wore a dark blue suit and blue tie. His Phi Beta Kappa key gleamed on his gold watch-chain. John W. Davis was admitted. "Frank, it's wonderful!" said the man who got nowhere eight years ago. Al Smith, the man who got nowhere four years ago, said...
Those readers of the New York Times who scan only its headlines received a strong, specific impression when they read last week: DEBT CANCELLATION . . . PROPOSED BY BORAH...
...class, are as follows: For president, William Charles McCarty, of Arlington; Franklin Plummer Whitbeck, of Bronxville, New York. For vice-president, Edwin Ide Brainard, of Arlington; Richard Woolen Emory, of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas Ferguson Locke, of Boston; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; David Daniel Scan-nel, Jr., of Jamaica Plain. For Secretary-treasurer, Donald Armstrong, of West Roxbury; Delavan Carlos Clos, of New York, New York: Lee Perot Howard, of Larchmont, New York...
...print front-page for nearly two weeks. Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite New York Evening Post might feature on its front page a three-column drawing of the girl's family and dog in their home. The Chicago Tribune might feel called upon to print an 8-column banner: SCAN SLAIN GIRL'S LOVE DIARY. The Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Examiner, Milwaukee Sentinel, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Indianapolis News might go for the story, as go for it they did. So did the newspapers of Boston, so energetically that Andrew J. Peters, onetime Boston...