Word: printing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times was indignant over French and British censors who were holding up its cables. In an editorial the Times said: "This newspaper will, as far as possible, make plain the sources of its news dispatches. It will not print rumors as fact." Same day the Times announced that it had at last abandoned its sole reliance on Associated Press (of which it was a founder) and its own men, to complete its war coverage had taken United Press service as well...
...Willkie fired a final shot. Next day in Manhattan newspapers appeared a full-page advertisement, duplicate of an ad run two days before in Southern papers. Under a print of a church tower with the hands of the clock at 12, Copywriter Wendell Willkie wrote: "Tonight at midnight, we hand over our Tennessee Electric properties and a $2,800,000 tax problem...
...inevitable as a cheese crouton in tomato bisque is Fujiyama in the background of a Japanese print. To Japanese the symmetrical, snow-shawled, 12,395-foot-high cone is sacred. They call it "Mr. Fuji," and climb it in droves, usually starting at sundown and taking about twelve hours. Seeing dawn from the rim of Fuji's long-dead crater is considered a sort of virtuously ecstatic act, like seeing a vision. Last week 13 disabled Japanese war veterans declared their intention of "demonstrating national spirit" by stumping up Mr. Fuji on their honorable peg legs...
...fiction, the first and one of the best realistic portraits of a young American girl, the slyest commentary on the difference in romantic Southern and Northern ways of doing the same thing, it was also one of the greatest failures in U. S. publishing. The book went out of print; the blonde and charming Miss Ravenel was forgotten, along with her dashing but dishonest Colonel Carter; their creator, John William De Forest of New Haven, who died in 1906, became a footnote in college textbooks, someone greatly admired only by William Dean Howells...
...real coup was executed in 1938, when in an insulting blob of black type he announced that the Chronicle was fed up with the current warehouse strike, demanded that the warehouse operators and the C. I. O. make peace. The union replied with a suggestion that Editor Smith print the facts or mind his own business. Editor Smith countered with the announcement that "the Chronicle makes it its business to stick its nose into any so-called private row which affects the broad public interest." The union snapped back: "That being the case, we ask you to serve as mediator...