Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crimson speakers were Robert Beck '39, Barry Shooshan '39, while speaking for Williams were Barry Lennon and James O'Sullivan. The judges were D. M. Staley, head of the Staley College of the Spoken Word; B. Gullagher, coach of debating at the Rivers School; and Howard Higgins, dean of Emerson College...
...storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California today and . . . Los Angeles is still smiling...
Mighty Fallen. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, supplied U. S. newsorgans with the full 9,000-word indictment against the 21 prisoners. If cabled from Moscow at press rates this would have cost $1,000. It is what the Soviet Government wants to have believed, amounts to this...
Before the death of E. W. Scripps in 1926. the Scripps-Howard papers were a great chain but they were not the household word-almost comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the great New York World, they moved into Manhattan and gained prestige. Meanwhile Scripps-Howard came to identify a type of journalism, popular but not vulgar, liberal (supporting Roosevelt in his first term) but independent (criticizing Roosevelt later...
...investigation. Hearings ended last summer and last week the Federal Communications Commission report was in the hands of Chairman Frank R. McNinch, almost ready to be submitted to Congress. Therefore, in making his annual report last week, A. T. & T. President Walter S. Gifford took care to get his word in first. "This country," observed Mr. Gifford, "is entitled in good times and bad to the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost." Referring to the FCC report: Said he: "This investigation . . . has been one-sided throughout. The company was denied not only the right to cross-examine...