Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas, where Democrats have a U. S. Supreme Court decision empowering them to close their primaries to Negroes on the ground that the Democratic Party has the status of a private club in regulating its membership, the news that 1,500 Negroes had nevertheless voted in Fort Worth in last month's primary provoked a bitter intraparty squabble...
...Hours Bill, which Rules twice kept off the floor until the White House prodded the House into discharging the bill from committee. Already marked for Purge when he went back to the Gashouse to campaign this spring, Congressman O'Connor wrote a letter to the New Dealish Daily News, claiming that his only actual anti-New Deal vote was against Reorganization. But he was too late, and Franklin Roosevelt branded his brow along with that of Millard Tydings by declaring that a New York Post editorial denouncing both expressed his sentiments (TIME...
...This is one of the most damaging indiscretions in the records of responsible journalism!" promptly blazed London's Liberal News Chronicle. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's stanch supporter, the Conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, declared: "No more sinister blow could have been struck...
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...
...News, in which such frankly biased stories appear, is an eight-page weekly, founded last December as the official organ of the C. I. O. Price: 3? per copy, $1 per year, reductions for block subscriptions and bundle orders. Last week the circulation of the C. I. 0. News skyrocketed from 125,000 to 700,000 when John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America entered subscriptions for all its members. Editorialized the C. I. 0. News: "Powerful chains of daily papers show that the business world has learned the lesson of combination. But labor has here tofore failed...