Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of the presidential campaign of 1936, the local Democratic headquarters received a telephone call. '"Say," a voice exclaimed, "tell us just what the principles of the New Deal are-we're having an argument." "Hold the phone," was the answering injunction, followed by a long pause. Then: "Sorry. We're having an argument...
...excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money to pay the postage for his personal opinions-that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry. Fortunately . . . that type of executive is a rarity...
...bomb plunging down on U. S. warships in the Panama Canal, Publisher Stern shouted: "ACE G-MAN BARES GERMAN CONSPIRACY TO PARALYZE UNITED STATES!" Tired Mr. Turrou was going to turn out enough articles to run "for several weeks." Said he in Publisher Stern's advertisement: "I Can Tell You That a confidential conference between President Roosevelt and a foremost naval designer, held secretly in the White House, was known in detail in Nazi spy headquarters in Germany within a few hours! "I Can Tell You That the Nazi Government spent huge sums to further their espionage in this...
...right is given to a Commodity Exchange Commission consisting of the Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce and the Attorney General. The Secretary of Agriculture is chief and has under his direction the Commodity Exchange Administration, now headed by a heavy-set crop technologist of Swiss descent, Dr. Joseph William Tell Duvel, who has been with the Department of Agriculture off and on since 1902. Last week Dr. Duvel submitted the CEA's proposals for speculative limits. Thereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that to prevent undue price fluctuation from speculation, the Commission proposed...
Last week Kentucky-reared Edwin Rogers Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, went to University of Georgia to make a commencement speech on "How to Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also...