Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...towns as small as Susquehanna, Pa. (pop. 3,203) have a daily paper. No U. S. small town has a daily paper more militantly enterprising than the six-page, 48-year-old Susquehanna Evening Transcript. Last week the Transcript's 280-lb. Editor Ulysses Simpson Grant Baker successfully passed a major milestone in his three-year fight with the Canawacta Water Supply...
...minimum per quarter to $6.50. Editor Baker claimed that the increase was unfair, splashed his front page with loud exhortations against it, called it "legalized robbery." It looked as if the Transcript had a chance to win until May 1933, when Pennsylvania's Public Service Commission approved the raise...
...revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker of the Transcript has his own explanation for the inclusion of the last two plays in the list; he is of the opinion that the censor is haunted, that theatrical spooks are making a hell of his life and that loudly banning plays which almost everyone has forgotten about is his method of laying...
Beside the point is discussion of the treatment which exiles now receive here, or of the Transcript's innuendo on anti-Semitism, or of the irrelevant defense that the University "does not hire men on a basis of their political connections." The test of Harvard's ability to procure creative scholars may be considered to lie in its policy toward the remaining thousand and odd German exiles; among them there must be some outstanding brilliants. To advance learning the Officers may well remember that "The deed is all, and nothing the report...
...scruples that make the life of a Yale athletic director so miserable, has solved her coaching problem to the beaming satisfaction of all except a few disgruntled but gracious Kay-dots. "I have come to the conclusion that football is more than a game," that pillar of the Boston Transcript, Mr. George C. Carens, quotes Dartmouth's President Ernest M. Hopkins as saying in justification of the Big Green's attack on the United States Army. "I think football is a symbol." President Hopkins is right, Football is a symbol. It is a symbol of all the over-emphasis...