Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also by the Atlanta Constitution, Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, Chattanooga News. Winner Majure and his family of eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure has on her shelves 273 quarts...
Last week, therefore, it was bad news for Nazis when Lord Londonderry changed his mind. In a speech before the Empire-minded Overseas League in London, he called upon Mr. Chamberlain to pledge his Government not to "sacrifice an inch of territory or one individual" to Nazi colonial demands. For good measure he added: "We cannot hand over any population to a country which seems bent on exterminating a section of its community or on reducing them to a situation which calls for condemnation by every right-minded man and woman throughout the civilized world...
...brown-haired Louis Ruppel went to the tabloid Chicago Daily Times as managing editor in January 1935, after four years on the New York Daily News, and a brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...
...Times reporters and writers whooped with delight when courtly Musicritic Robert Pollak stood up and described the arrival of Editor Ruppel as a "foundling" in the Times's lobby nearly four years ago. Said he: "The baby was wrapped in an old copy of the New York Daily News. When we first made out its cries it was yelling: 'Come on, you bastards, we'll have to replate...
...Italy's Minister of Popular Culture, Dino Alfieri, last week ruled that Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, must quit his job January 1, along with some 200 other Italian news men employed by foreign newspapers or press associations...