Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the numerous Roosevelts who spend all their time making news, Gracie Hall Roosevelt is usually notable for making no news at all. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's younger (46) brother, his most conspicuous appearance in print up to last week had been in his sister's autobiography in which she wrote that she felt a "great responsibility for him." Last week Gracie Hall Roosevelt suddenly found himself paraded across the front pages in the U. S. This was surprising enough but the reason was more so. It was a rumor that he had invited Henry Ford to lunch...
...Vice President Garner like a small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection...
Lost to war news reporting last week was James P. Lardner, who went to Barcelona three weeks ago for Paris' New York Herald Tribune. Son of the late Ring W. Lardner, Harvard-educated, 23-year-old Lardner joined an artillery division of the International Brigade...
...first official request ever made by the King of England in connection with a news picture was issued last week from Windsor Castle, attached by picture agencies to the backs of negatives showing His Majesty posing with the heir apparent
...last week ordered corrected some abuses typical in Soviet collective farming which have been fully described by Soviet officials who have fled Russia, have never been mentioned by dispatches from Moscow. Promptly the New York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms is like a searchlight thrown backward over...