Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be more accurate, however, to refer to Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson as "the leading wet publisher in America." He is as outspoken as a wealthy publisher can be; and furthermore his Liberty, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News are read by more than 4,000,000 people. His partner in these enterprises is his cousin. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. The two men are not one in editorial policy. Capt. Patterson, whose chief interest is the New York Daily News, supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the campaign; every day, during the two months before election, the Daily News said...
Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...
...believe in the merit system of the civil service and I believe further thatat appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve." (This was taken to refer to Negro postmasters...
...Supervisor Gladys L. Catchings presumed that Sloane Maternity made no discrimination against Negroes. In her application, which she sent by mail, she did not mention that she was a Negress. But she did refer to her service at Freedman's Hospital and her studies at Tuskegee Institute, both well-known Negro institutions. Her application was accepted; she went to Manhattan; she registered, was assigned to duty. Then someone complained that her dark presence was obnoxious. Sloane Maternity ousted...
...ever had a nine o'clock class is familiar with the sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army of the Unemployed. The sinners have salvation in their own hands, but for the plodding saint there is too often only the satisfaction of a fleeting glimpse at Parnassus...