Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was in a little better than his usual good humor one day last week when his newshawks came to press conference. The session had been postponed from the usual 10:30 a. m. to noon to get maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much...
Pleased with this yarn, Reporter Paine was further tickled when letters from hopeful investors asking M. Grantaire's address began to flood the Press office. Soon Mr. Paine grew accustomed to seeing his fabulous tale reprinted in unsophisticated journals under the heading "Scientific Notes" or "Nuggets of Fact." Back from the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Uprising, working on the New York Herald, Spiderman Paine had the fabrication brought to his attention again in 1902 when a plagiarist tried to sell it to him for publication in the Herald. Soon thereafter, Reporter Paine gave up newspaper work...
Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule...
...twinge of loneliness at being abandoned, even briefly, in what may have seemed at the moment like a large waste of water. What would it feel like to fall off a ship in mid-Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like. His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective for being so quietly, matter-of-factly...
...realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty and little-known episode in the history of Asia Minor. As usual he gives his far-off tale the vivid immediacy that has won him a place in the first rank of historical novelists...