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...Franklin Roosevelt had taken this country completely by surprise. Flabbergasted Congressmen stumbled hastily into the legislative chambers to hear the message read as rumors of its contents flew. News-tickers flashed it to the floors of stock exchanges and stockmarket prices took a swift tumble. It spread in banner headlines across every newspaper. Presently it appeared that the U. S. was not .only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness...
Decision to build the mill was made at a meeting called in his home town by Vice President Ted Dealey of the Dallas News and Journal. Here Publisher James Geddes Stahlman of the Nashville Banner, chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' newsprint committee, told his fellows that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill...
Francisco Franco: "Today two-thirds of Spanish territory has gladly flocked to our banner and considerably more than half of the total population...
With or without Politics, 1936 was a banner radio year. Recovery's impetus provided U. S. radio listeners with the most elaborate air shows since radio began. In October, campaign radiorators of all political parties used air time as it never had been used before, gave the networks all-time revenue highs for a single month. Last week, before the year closed, Mutual Broadcasting System accomplished what radiomen have long held improbable: a fourth coast-to-coast network...
...schools thundered the Soldiers' Chorus from Faust, climaxing it with a lunge towards the footlights and an unintentional Communist salute. Enthralled by Lucrezia Bori's excerpts from La Boheme and Baritone Tibbett's splendid singing, the huge party released itself in a loud Star-Spangled Banner, pressed backstage to admire a new $5,000 cyclorama...