Word: happen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given us an idea of what those innocent people of China and Spain are experiencing every day at the hands of Dictators. This should be a warning to America of what can, and will, happen as soon as certain foreign powers have developed their aircraft to such extent that they will be able to enter the stratosphere, come to this country, drop their destructive bombs of shrapnel and gas on an unsuspecting people and return to their country without ever being seen May Orson Welles have taught us a lesson in his portrayal of a sudden attack on America...
...Emporia Gazette is noted for editorial comment. Greenwich Time soon got a reputation for guessing what was going to happen next in foreign affairs. For Wythe Williams, before leaving Europe, had organized his own private foreign news service to an extent never before attempted by a paper in Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over...
Last week, after the first flurry of discussion about the agreements, came a flurry of activity among traders. When the State Department first announced its intention of negotiating the British and Canadian pacts last November, buyers began to order from hand to mouth, waiting to see what would happen. With the fog lifted last week, U. S. manufacturers of office equipment, electrical appliances, tractors, oil pumps, leather goods, silk hosiery charted plans to benefit by the most favorable concessions in the pacts. Automobile manufacturers, although disappointed at not getting duty concessions, thought that gains for U. S. farmers might mean...
...happens that accidents sometimes happen. One such accident was the failure of this department to state in Friday's review of "Amphitryon" that this picture is running at the Fine Arts. It was no accident, however, that this picture was very highly recommended...
...News happens when it happens and don't start becoming news any sooner than it does happen, and therefore to try to make your subscribers' eyes stick out by telling them that because you appear hereafter on Thursday instead of on Friday they are getting the news one day faster is like telling a boy that he is getting more than 24 hours in the day if he arises at 6 a. m. instead...