Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week when his press conference assembled, Franklin Roosevelt brushing aside other subjects, picked up a typewritten sheet and, in cold accents so deliberate that reporters could take it down verbatim, he read: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation...
...years as a newspaper man (and boost his autobiography, The Education of an American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...
...broadcast was begun with an announcement that a dramatization was taking place and was concluded by Mr. Welles's statement that it was "the Mercury Theatre's own version of dressing up in a sheet . . . and saying Boo!" But the story had been so realistically transplanted from Britain to the U. S., from the 19th to the 20th Century, that almost any listener who came in on a fragment might be pardoned for a momentary pricking up of the ears...
...cash and bought himself the 107-year-old Republican Philadelphia Inquirer, the Main Line Old Guard hardly knew who he was. Most of Moe Annenberg's millions had come from publications rarely seen in Bryn Mawr: Daily Racing Form, New York Morning Telegraph (a sporting sheet), Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories. His immensely profitable Nationwide News Service, Inc., which supplies sporting and racing news by telephone to all comers including bookies, was not as well known to men who haunted stock brokerage offices as to those in poolrooms. Even more disconcerting was the legendary reputation...
Calling to his office 19 reporters (including one from the Tribune), handsome, pugnacious Howard O. Hunter, Assistant Administrator who bosses 1,250,000 WPA clients in 13 Midwest States, gave the Tribune a thorough tongue-lashing for "filthy editorializing" and "vicious propaganda." Then he handed each man a 25-sheet mimeographed release stuffed with facts and affidavits backing his main charge: in every case "in which specific persons or locations are named . . . every statement published by the Tribune was found to be false...