Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes, 2) the press was given for direct quotation a one-sentence sample of sententious Presidential philosophy: "It takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully accepted Nominee Downey as a true liberal, let National Chairman Jim Farley promise him election support...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...term "plague" is usually associated with the Black Death of the 14th Century, which destroyed a fourth of Europe's inhabitants, or the Great Plague of London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year...
This autumn there is no fresher news in the world of art than the mushrooming of these Community Art Centres. Among the least publicized concerns of the Federal Art Project, they are fast becoming its most cherished offspring. Located mainly in cities where no art museums or schools previously existed, they have had an attendance so far of about 4,000,000 people-almost equal to the combined two years' attendance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and Chicago's Art Institute. They are designed to be, and promise to be, permanent; for they belong...
Wheat made the most news last week, but the Government was busy on many another troubled sector on the agricultural front...