Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing Out the News. A fast, lively, pro-Roosevelt revue (TIME...
...newspaper man (and boost his autobiography, The Education of an American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...
...Albert W. Johnston, owner of the Greenwich (Conn.) News-Graphic, who makes money from gold mines and doesn't like to lose it on newspapers, looked around for someone to put his paper on its feet. Johnston met Wythe Williams, and the Greenwich News-Graphic not only got a new editor but a new punning name, Greenwich Time. Wythe Williams set out to make his Connecticut suburban paper the Emporia Gazette of the East...
...Emporia Gazette is noted for editorial comment. Greenwich Time soon got a reputation for guessing what was going to happen next in foreign affairs. For Wythe Williams, before leaving Europe, had organized his own private foreign news service to an extent never before attempted by a paper in Greenwich or any other U. S. suburb. Equipped with his own hunches and reports from well-placed tipsters, Editor Williams made quite a local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over...
Another Williams news hunch came last week...