Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...
...President Roosevelt joined by radio in dedicating a Will Rogers memorial museum and statue (by Jo Davidson) at Claremore, Okla. Excerpt: "When he [Rogers] wanted people to laugh out loud he used the methods of pure fun. And when he wanted to make a point for the good of all mankind, he used the kind of gentle irony that left no scars." Eddie Cantor said: "Any time you gave him a biscuit, he'd want to pay you back with a barrel of flour...
...dregs of the Richard Whitney cup. Having issued a factual summary of the case and a set of drastic rules to prevent its recurrence (TIME, Nov. 7), SEC wrote finis to the tragedy with a stinging lecture and rebuke to the Old Guard which Richard Whitney once ruled. Excerpt...
Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . . And so I've come to Carlsbad, and I sip the filthy water . . . Proprietary medicines-are they everything they oughter...
Said she: "Isn't it lovely?" New Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...