Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting of this gathering in TIME also shows that your organization is wide-awake and has a nose for news. None of the northwest metropolitan newspapers that came to my attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
Said he sold his Alaska stories to all wide-awake dailies, sent money to wife and baby in Alaska. Got two bits from Managing Editor Moore for a sandwich but nothing for his promised revelations about Matanuska Valley potatoes, so big and shiny, but "really just like mush...
...Soong, in addition to being General Manager of the China Development Finance Corp., which looms as a nation-wide enterprise under Generalissimo Chiang's powerful protection, is Managing Director of the great Manufacturers Bank of China, one of whose most important branches is in teeming Canton. Thither T. L. Soong arranged to go last week as "Financial Commissioner" with a great retinue of Chinese bankers, including directors of the country's three government banks...
...straw vote the important thing to note is the trend of public opinion. The Gallup polls show a sharp nation-wide swing away from Roosevelt. In only seven States has there been a gain in his popularity. In the Middle West, the real battleground in this campaign, there has been a general subsidence in the pro-Roosevelt sentiment...
Townsend men held up their light wash pants with wide suspenders, wore no coats over their rumpled shirts; the women wore plain print dresses, outmoded hats, sensible shoes. At week's end Cleveland merchants complained that they had bought record quantities of picture postcards, almost nothing else. But there were nearly 5,000 delegates-more than the Republican and Democratic convention delegates combined-and as many more visitors. If they were genuinely representative, they meant that there were millions of oldsters like them throughout the land, each with a vote, each with 10? per month for Townsend Club dues...