Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana settled down. Lurid stories of massacre, revolution and Negro uprisings continued to filter in to the capital from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which...
Died. Edwin R. Collins, 57, managing editor of the Los Angeles Herald & Express, editorial director of afternoon Hearstpapers on the Pacific Coast; of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
...melting-point of even hard-headed city editors, and almost anything may happen. The reader, too, contributes to the confusion. Some newspaper headlines are hard to decipher in mid-January, but the haze of heat distorts even those which make sense. For instance, when the Drifter read in the Herald Tribune on August 14 that "Hull's Kin Visits His Frigate," it was quite natural, in view of the recent unpleasantness at London, that he should think of Cordell. What was his amazement, then, to read in the second line that "Granddaughter, 82, Is Shown Over Old Ironsides!" --The Nation...
Late one afternoon last week Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly started to leave his spacious fifth-floor office at City for home when a newshawk from William Randolph Hearst's Herald & Examiner stepped up to him. "You want to see me?" asked Mayor Kelly. "Yes," replied the Hearstling. "Questions?" "Yes" Mayor Kelly turned on his heel, strode back into his office, shot over his shoulder: "There's no use your waiting around." The reporter departed. Next morning the Herex blazoned this headline across its front page...
...Chicago Tribune has approved defrilling Chicago schools on the ground that retrenchment is the only way to head off a chaotic year like the past one. Last week it was pleased to note that the Save-Our-Schools Committee and its rival the Herald & Examiner were wrong about one thing. They had insisted that it would cost $800,000 to make the old junior high schools suitable for seniors. The contracts let last week totaled only $87,686. The Herald & Examiner countered that this was merely the preliminary cost, that there would be more to pay later...