Word: storming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, the reporters fell into two groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
...grin at his interviewers. Most of the correspondents looked uncomfortable. The room was quiet as a church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that, for a time at least, a new atmosphere existed between the President...
...would not have been in good taste for Franklin Roosevelt to mention Fred Storm's new job publicly, either to congratulate him or commiserate with him on leaving U. P. For only the day before, for the first time in history, a President of the U. S., in a written statement, had accused a press association of sending out a story that was "wholly false." The association was United Press. Facts in the case were these...
Speaking at an American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Milwaukee. Dr. Brooks recalled that, when a hurricane hit Manhattan in 1821, the tide in the Hudson River rose 13 feet in an hour. If another such storm should happen to strike during a high spring tide and with the Hudson in flood, seawater would surge over lower Manhattan, engulfing the Battery, part of the financial district; water would pour down the subway entrances and fill the tubes, trapping passengers like flies; and the automobile traffic tunnels under the Hudson would fill up from end to end with...
CANCELLED IN RED-Hugh Penfecost -Dodd, Mead ($2). The shooting of a racketeering stamp broker solved by another dealer, dapper Larry Storm, and by soft-voiced Inspector Bradley of the Manhattan force. Ably-plotted, humorous, backed with authoritative philatelic glue...