Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt and his entourage have long excelled at keeping him in the news by tying up his activities to wars, droughts and other Grade A news events. An extreme example of this art was provided by Secretary Early one day when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males...
...Names make news." names made this news...
Today, Transradio news goes by teletype and radiotelegraph to 288 radio stations. It boasts an impressive list of beats, such as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. In 1936, it began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...
...listenable." President Moore, whose hobbies are supercharged foreign cars and "revolutionary word forms in poetry," abjures the orthodox "who, what, when, where" formula. His reporters must give all the facts, but not necessarily in the first paragraph. They must tell their story "the way a man would break the news to his wife that the boss had given him a raise...
...days before 1929, Race Week at Larchmont was the rendezvous for big-boat yachtsmen, and America's Cup sloops (with crews of 25 or more) mingled with the small fry. But the day of million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger...