Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
...This news, coupled with the report that Britain would advance China $2,500,000, gave the Japanese pause. Since the war began Japan has dreaded more than anything else the possibility of united economic pressure from the U. S. and Great Britain. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye hastily issued a long awaited statement on Japan's final aims in China. The statement, unusually moderate in phraseology where outside nations were concerned, was virtually an outline of Japan's peace terms. Premier Prince Konoye blandly announced that Japan sought no territory (that could be left to her puppets), no indemnity...
...London, managers of a new newsreel theatre announced an innovation: installation of 16 mm. (half-size) film-projection machines to show amateurs' scoops of news events. In Manhattan, the Newsreel Theatres Inc. announced plans for regular showings of amateur and professional 16 mm. news shorts at Rockefeller Center's new newsreel theatre...
...they finished. Most of the air shots in Dawn Patrol were lifted intact from the 1930 edition. Good shot: Courtney, whose minute squadron on the Marne front has been losing a man a day for weeks, reacting with an absent-minded nod, while he reads a newspaper, to the news that an old friend has been killed...
Excavator Sachen also carried the big news to Mercy Hospital. But the doctors, not so receptive as the reporters, pooh-poohed the Kickapoo, sent Sachen home to his digging. Vermifuges are fine for dogs, they said, but the drugs they contain will not cure anemia and epilepsy. They doubted that Mylon had swallowed the marbles, or if he had, that they had remained in his stomach for five years. Small, hard objects are usually passed off within a day or two, explained patient Dr. Donnelly, as she ordered another bottle of slow, safe iron compound for still anemic Mylon...