Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Tablet, official organ of the Roman Catholic diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y.. .is a monolithic weekly which is edited, as if with mallet & chisel, by Dr. Patrick Scanlan. Last week, for the third successive time, the Tablet gave its wide-eyed readers news about a plot which, if authenticated, would have made every front page in the land. Villain of the plot was Professor Thurman Wesley Arnold, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. The plot itself: "starting a national religion and striving to control all others...
Silent since then, Cardinal Innitzer last week was once more reported in "protective custody," a plight in which presumably he had been for a month. The reporter of this news was an anonymous broadcaster from the Vatican radio station, speaking in English. The Cardinal, he said, had quietly requested that "several trustworthy persons who would leave Austria shortly" be brought to his palace, to behold the unrepaired damage done by the Nazis...
...many was it news last week that a freckled, redheaded, 23-year-old son of a California laundryman had abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that Donald Budge, champion of Australia, France, England and the U. S., would sign with Jack Harris (front man for Wilson Sporting Goods Co.) for an indoor barnstorming tour this winter. Last week the papers were signed. Starting January 3, Budge will display his talents opposite Ellsworth Vines in 70 U. S. cities...
...pious, highly literate city of Columbus, Ohio, enough Sunday newspapers were printed last week to build a dam of comics, features and news across the Olentangy River. A phenomenon in modern U. S. journalism had taken place: two new full-size Sunday newspapers were started on the same day in the same city...
...issued by the International Typographical Union, 320 new dailies started in the U. S., 319 were suspended. Most of the new papers were born in places like Goose Creek. Texas, Aliquippa, Pa. and Lead, S. D. The dead included such sizable city dailies as the New York American, Toledo News-Bee, Rochester Journal, St. Paul News...