Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were the bosses of the potent Kansas City Star, a traditionally Republican newspaper which had backed Democratic Governor Harry Woodring for re-election in 1932, made a prompt post-election switch to Winner Landon. Managing Editor Roy Roberts, one of Herbert Hoover's best newspaper friends in his days as the Star's able Washington correspondent, had gone to University of Kansas with Alf Landon. The manager of the Stars Kansas bureau, Lacy Haynes, who, as the shrewdest and best-informed political observer in Kansas, is popularly supposed to have dictated...
...room in the King David Hotel porters carried a large radio set so that the Emperor might listen to Benito Mussolini's speech annexing Ethiopia (see col. 3). The Negus could stand only half of it, nervously snapped off the switch, went to bed all of a tremble...
Herewith Dr. Newcomer's solution of a frequent patient-doctor quandary: "If you consult a doctor who, you believe, does not understand you or your case, you should feel perfectly at liberty to change physicians. The polite, kind way to make this switch is to notify the doctor, either verbally, or by letter, that you have decided to dispense with his service. A doctor appreciates this frankness. However, he is so accustomed to handling human nature that if you say nothing at all to him and simply go to another physician, he will feel you have acted well within...
...newspapers reached 25 when Publisher E. (for Elias) Manchester Boddy changed the name of his Los Angeles Post-Record to Evening News, converted it into a companion for his morning tabloid Illustrated Daily News. Hitherto outstanding event in the Post-Record's, erratic history was an astonishing editorial switch which it made in 1932. Founded by a Labor group in 1895, the Record was bought by the late great Edward Wyllis ("Old Man") Scripps, taken over by his estranged son James, became one of the chain which James's heirs published in partnership with the late Byron Hilton...
...retain cavalry until 1939, but elsewhere British cavalrymen will exchange their bridles for handle bars or steering wheels, their whips for monkey wrenches, as fast as the whole new program of creating "mechanized cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon Guards; the Queen's Bays; the King's Own Hussars; the Queen...