Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors were made aware of this routine event by the receipt of four mimeographed sheets...
Really scathing attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain...
Early next morning, no less than 14 of the 21 members of the British Cabinet spontaneously went to Heston Airport, jubilated in unprecedented fashion before news cameras (see cut) as they said good-by to Neville Chamberlain, wished him all success at Munich...
Boston did not know, possibly, that their reporters' only source of news was the Central Square desk sergeant; that a Cambridge policeman had made the four arrests (and had arrested, inevitably, the wrong men); that a Cambridge policeman was asking the pound of flesh; that the Post Commander was another Cambridge policeman...
...started some years ago when the Lampoon decided it would go into competition with the H. A. A. News in providing patrons of Harvard football games with the "names and numbers of all the players," and the athletic officials have been scared of their rivals ever since...