Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news itself. But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment. That pictures-by-telephone have established themselves to stay was proven last week when, on the heels of similar news from the New York Times's Wide World picture service, International News Photos and Acme News-pictures both announced that they would shortly begin operating wire picture services of their...
...protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line had changed his oldfashioned, literary poems into the brutal realism of Counter-Attack, whose taste was too strong for many a stay-at-home. His autobiography (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer) was a quiet masterpiece of emotion recollected in post-War tranquillity. Now, even for Veteran Sassoon, the War is long over. In middle-age (he is 49), he lives in retirement near Stonehenge, writes gently...
...when they want to go to the bathroom somebody takes them. Their eyes stay shut. Their spirits remain in the astral plane. But that doesn't prevent their bodies from getting off the cots or their stomachs from digesting as usual...
Harris & Ewing is Washington's oldest and most conservative picture agency. Specializing in official portraits, it customarily takes great pains to curry official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer...
...Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale drygoods trade. The two members who have sat on the Board since its first meeting in 1914 will stay on in Washington: Charles Summer Hamlin, 74, as a technical adviser to the new Board; Adolph Caspar Miller, 70, as an adviser on its new $3,400,000 marble building, contracts for which were let last week. The new Board is new in far more than personnel. Now called the Board...