Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come? Was the story written by an uninformed editor or by a Ranger fan? By all accepted standards of news values you are completely off base. . . . J. K. MACNEILL...
When a President whose good humor is normally as unflagging as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's exhibits the least touch of snappishness, it is major news. Last week, reporters lost no time in guessing that Franklin Roosevelt had finally stopped trying to conceal his serious concern about Depression. Right or wrong, the reporters' guess was reasonable. The Gainesville speech had touched off a selling wave that sent the stock market to new lows. Other business indices showed few signs of improvement...
...major move against Depression, the President roundly endorsed a plan proposed by his old adversary, Virginia's Carter Glass, to enlarge the loaning facilities of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In constant touch with Washington by telephone, the President was rewarded finally by a cheering piece of news; that, despite a strong ninth-inning rally by adversaries of his Reorganization Bill, the Senate had finally passed...
Surprise. In Congress, where Senate Majority Leader Barkley and Speaker Bankhead had been working like beavers to dam up their colleagues' enthusiasm for investigating TVA, this announcement that they had been working independently of White House orders was regarded as news indeed. Even more surprising did it seem when Leader Barkley, setting to work just as efficiently in the opposite direction, promptly produced his own resolution for investigating TVA, rushed it through the Senate. To pacify the House, Leader Barkley compromised on a joint investigating committee of five Representatives and five Senators, to be provided with full authority...
...Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered New Bolshevik Butenko. In Moscow this news electrified Old Bolshevik Litvinoff. Showing his Stalinist zeal, he ordered rushed off three hot notes in succession to the Rumanian Government, demanded that they rescue Butenko from Fascist toils, finally ordered the Soviet...