Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physician v. Poison. A writer in the New York Herald Tribune once called...
...advisability of opening a Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets...
Germany promptly denied it. Then the Dernieres Nouvelles of Strasbourg brought a report from Riga that the plane had been shot down by machine guns. Finally the London Daily Herald's Kovno correspondent boldly stated that the Lithuanian Government was convinced, was awaiting only final proof before demanding apology and indemnity from Germany. His story: When the Lithuanica flew through the darkness over a concentration camp near Soldin, searchlights were turned on the machine. Believing it to be a Communist airplane which they suspected of an attempt to rescue some prisoners, the guards cut loose with machine guns, brought...
...Herald & Examiner had previously asserted that the deficit was really only some $5,000,000, to which the Board had added $2,600,000 in anticipation of a hypothetical decrease in tax revenues. Now Dean Judd charged outright that the Board had deliberately misstated the deficit in order to frighten the public into accepting its cuts. Even if it were trying to wipe out in one year the deficit accumulated since 1929, that, at 1932's end, had been less than $7,000,000. As for 1933's genuine deficit of $1,162,940, that had already been...
...more school economies. Ignoring Superintendent Bogan, they adopted unanimously resolutions: 1) demanding that the Board rescind its order or resign; 2 & 3) calling on Mayor Kelly and Illinois' Governor Henry Horner to intervene; 4) extending "profound thanks and appreciation" to William Randolph Hearst and the editor of the Herald & Examiner...