Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference one contretemps occurred which provoked the President and started talk of a Cabinet resignation. Fortnight ago President Hoover despatched to Secretary Stimson, then in Paris, an outline of what might be done for Germany. When the delegates met in London, the State Department in Washington released the text of the President's instructions to Delegate Stimson, declared it had been formally presented to the Conference. Acting Secretary of State Castle asserted that President Hoover was the sole author of this "American proposal." A muddle developed when Delegate Stimson denied that he had received any "new Hoover plan...
Press. Two other important decrees passed over Old Paul's desk before Chancellor Brüning went off to the Paris conference. German newspapers were ordered to print "the full text of any statement or correction which the Government orders to be published without any editorial comment in the same edition and on any page that the Government may select." This was to prevent party organs from garbling official decrees to suit their own ends. "Any periodical endangering the public safety" continued the decree, "is liable to confiscation...
...mention metropolitan dailies) runs a column of personal items, a bald list of local names and picayune events that mean nothing to the outside reader, may mean a lot to knowing fellow-townspeople. Author DeLamater takes a typical column from the "Steepleton Weekly News," makes each item the text for a chapter about the people concerned. By the time she has finished the column she has expanded it into a novel...
...picture of an infant's bare backside, with the text: KEEP KISSABLE...
More original than the burlesque of advertisements (which is by now a well-worn trick known to every undergraduate funny magazine in the U. S.) was Editor Anthony's policy on "text." Wrote he: "Magazines always have nice pretty text running around their pictures because it looks nice, and because the advertisers insist upon plenty of nice pretty text, but nobody reads the nice pretty text anyway...