Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of Democratic Governor George H. Earle. Pennsylvania's 62-year-old constitution may be amended only once in five years. Impatient to let his citizens share in "the more abundant life of the Roosevelt New Deal," Governor Earle proposed to revamp the whole document at one clip. He wanted to up the State's borrowing power, shift taxes from real estate to incomes, lop off or consolidate antique political offices and divisions, lay the ground for social security legislation. First step was to get Pennsylvanians to say Yes to a Constitutional Convention in 1936. Last week after...
When Newshawk McDowell arrived by automobile at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer snuggery, "I left my hand satchel in the car. It looked too professional. I had the forethought, however, to take out my letter from Cardinal Hayes, and on top of this, fastening it with a clip, I put my New York Times calling card. It was identification. I was all alone. I was not afraid, oh, no. But I might faint or become ill. I knew no Italian and no one there was likely to know any English. And no one there knew me. Folded...
Johnny Price lives in San Francisco and does nothing more tiring than clip the occasional coupon that enables him to pay room rent, drink and stand around on street corners. One day he meets up with a little old man, who makes a queerly indelible impression on him. Thereafter Johnny never knows when or where the little old man may appear; he begins to feel haunted. There is something terrible about the old man's eyes: he can stop a charging barkeep just by looking at him. Sadly troubled in mind, Johnny goes walking at night in Golden Gate...
...than any President before him in managing the Press. Last week he succeeded even further when he became his own press. Arriving in Jacksonville overnight from Washington he boarded the Farragut, one of the Navy's newest and finest destroyers, which whisked him off at a 35-knot clip to the Bahamas. His secretary, Marvin Mclntyre, his Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and his bevy of newshawks proceeded on by rail to Miami. For the rest of the week the only news accounts of Franklin Roosevelt were those he wrote and wirelessed back...
...with the idea of a scientist who discovered how to turn humans into stone and statues into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses visit a Broadway department store completely naked...