Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of America's blackest journalistic episode-a Chicago circulation war which cradled gangsterism over 30 years ago-has never been documented so damningly as it apparently was last week in Author Burton Rascoe's answer to the $250,000 libel suit filed against him and Doubleday, Doran & Co. in July by Max Annenberg, a $125,000-a-year circulation director of the nation's best-selling daily, the tabloid New York News. The blustering Max Annenberg charged that a Rascoe autobiography. Before I Forget, which called Annenberg "a burly barbarian, endeavoring with conspicuous success to live...
...explored upper Manhattan, dived into nightclubs. He found their dancers all too light, too sophisticated. "I want them black, black, all Negro," said von Grona. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel agreed, said "the blacker the better." Von Grona advertised, offering scholarships, and got hundreds of applications. He picked 20 of the blackest applicants and started to rehearse his ballet. The neighbors complained. Hollywood tried to lure him away. But von Grona stuck...
Attacking as a Tory Jew, young Baron Melchett, son of the late great Imperial Chemical Industries tycoon, groaned: "If the Government goes back on the Balfour Declaration and Mandate, as now seems to be planned, it will be the blackest hour in the long history of Jewry. . . . The only Arab the Government pays attention to is the Arab with a rifle...
...closer and closer but still the Basques held out with deeds of incredible valor, sacrificing thousands in desperate counter-attacks and cheering each other with the thought that their grandfathers had held Bilbao through a siege of 125 days in the Carlist War of 1874. What made their chances blackest was an almost total lack of airplanes to oppose the German bombers of General Franco. The massacre of Guernica was sharp in every mind. Should General Franco be advised to repeat that mass bombing of a civil population there would be no way of stopping him. Reconnoitering on the Basque...
...most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts, roughly matching in swank the Nahlin rented by Edward VIII for his Balkan cruise last summer. Coronation time it will lie off Southampton, taking the Davieses cruising to the Spithead naval review, and after...