Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, the Times-Star was able to substantiate its priority claim with documentary evidence. Careful Miss Wheeler had obtained and mailed home a testimonial letter signed by J. L. R. Van Meter, Vice President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. This letter the Times-Star reproduced, explaining: "It is not necessary for a reporter to go on the witness stand or make an affidavit every time he brings a news story into the office. . . . However . . . when a newspaper does something that no newspaper in the world has ever done there are apt to be some doubters. In order to prove...
Surprised indeed were newspapermen when, six months ago, the Chicago Daily News whose late Editor Victor Fremont Lawson with Melville Elijah Stone developed the Associated Press, enhanced its foreign news with A. P.'s "opposition." United Press. Last week came another event. Simultaneous with the announcement that United Press had extended its service into its 18th language (Icelandic )', the New York Herald Tribune made known that henceforth it would use full U. P. service, domestic and foreign. With its own overseas bureaus and the A. P. and U. P. the Herald Tribune was putting itself in a position...
...York Sun, which has just availed itself of Consolidated Press Service, last week published a congratulatory letter from Prime Minister André Tardieu (L'Americain) of France. Said he: "I take particular pleasure in this because I was myself one of the Consolidated Press Association's earliest contributors when it inaugurated the happy plan of opening its wires to Europeans in political life, permitting them to express freely their views to the American public. ... So far as a government can exercise by frankness and honesty an educative influence on public opinion in both countries, I promise you that...
Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont last week sent a telegram to Senator Thomas Terry Connally of Texas assuring him that the Government would obtain its dirigible helium only from its own plants at Amarillo...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...