Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of California's most substantial citizens stood behind two labor petitions that made the biggest news, promised the bitterest November fights. Nominally sponsored by an organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed...
...look further into charges of WPA support for Mr. Barkley and also into the operation of Governor Chandler's State machine. Mr. Chandler (see p.11) frankly admitted to the Committee that State employes had been chosen chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator 'Walsh huffed & puffed about "worse than gutter politics," Senator Sheppard on almost the eve of Tennessee's election issued an unprecedented statement...
This week, just as Soviet citizens were busy celebrating "AntiWar Day" (Stalin's name for the anniversary of the declaration of war by Imperial Germany in 1914 upon Imperial Russia), they were quietly informed by the Soviet official news agency Tass that the defeated Japanese forces had nevertheless "occupied Soviet territory to a depth of six miles." Next, Japanese official press wires reported that 50 Soviet bombing planes had appeared over Korea this week, bombed several villages and railways. Five planes were shot down before they could get back to Russia...
...After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona steamed into the harbor of Loanda, largest city in Portugal's West African colony of Angola. But to the population of Angola the big news last week was not the official visit but the more important fact that in Lisbon tight-fisted Premier and Finance Minister Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar had finally loosened up and granted the neglected colony $7,000,000 in relief funds. Although to Angola's 60,000 white and almost...
...have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer who first caught His Highness' eye four years ago in London when she was legging in the Grosvenor...