Word: transcriptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant's shyness, the big note in the Transcript's stories of last year, has not disappeared over the summer. Probably it has increased a bit, as the following piece of news should prove. Needing a secretary in his new job, President Conant was given the name of Vernon Munroe, '31. Vernon was summering on the Cape, when he received a call from Cambridge. The ensuing conversation was on this order...
Fortnight ago the AP carried a story by Sports Editor George Carens of the Boston Transcript. It quoted Vines on the Davis Cup team and its non-playing leaders, Bernon S. Prentice and famed Coach Mercer Beasley, as follows...
...failure of the United States to Intervene in Cuba during the last few days of disorder has caused much comment in the press. On the whole, opinion is that the administration does well to "give Cuba another chance," as the Transcript has it, and that a continuation of the watchful waiting policy is desirable...
...week ago the Harvard correspondent of a Boston newspaper predicted that the reticence of F. D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, however admirable, might prove disastrous. The prophet proved a very oracle, for Boston's press, from the saffron Post and Globe to the blue-nosed Transcript, have exhibited a record case of jaundice in their deliberate attempts to set the stage for a good, gaudy, front page streamer exploitation...
...particular newspapermen who conceived and executed yesterday's coup are beyond consure. No decent words ill them. The usual human instructs of decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology...