Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news to hear a New Dealer recognize what all businessmen know: "that a minimum volume is necessary to break even on fixed expenses." That, he said, was "the significance of the President's quota of an $80,000,000,000 national income. It is in no sense an argument for a permanent unbalancing of the Federal budget...
...Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round up the green-shirted Hungarist Party, the country...
...exhibition that San Franciscans crowed over most-and with good reason -was the Old Masters show. California is far from overstocked with masterpieces of the great artistic periods, and California artists are the first to admit the lack of traditional guidelines which that entails. Accordingly, it was good news for them as well as for everybody else that the Fair had acquired about $30,000,000 worth of first-rank masterpieces, not from Eastern U. S. collections but from Europe. Greatest was the Italian Renaissance group, including such almost mythical beauties as Botticelli's Birth of Venus from...
Slated to graduate last June from Princeton University, Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, son of Japan's former Premier, failed to get enough passing marks to get his degree. Last week news came to the U. S. that Butch Konoye had been appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tungwen College in Shanghai's French Concession...
...research division will delve even further into the propaganda field, analyzing propaganda methods employed by the totalitarian stats and by the political parties in America. In addition, the difference between the interpretive and the "factual" news commentator in his appeal and influence, the question of free speech on the radio, and the problem of foreign language broadcasting will be covered...