Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Correspondents' dinner consisted of a burlesque news reel, showing the President as a "Doctor of Doctrines" singing a song to monopolistic big business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
...their cafés and at their firesides, members of the middle-class snorted with vexation at news that Socialist Blum had said "the Communists represent 1,500,000 citizens of France, so they cannot be ignored," and Radical Socialist National Defense & War Minister Edouard Daladier had chimed in, "Since a Communist soldier is considered good enough to die for France, I fail to see why there should not be a Communist in the Cabinet. I am sure that all Frenchmen will fly to the frontier, as they did in 1914, in case of menace from abroad...
Died. Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, educator; of a heart attack; in Gary, Ind. In 1934 he charged that the Brain Trust was plotting revolution and that Franklin Roosevelt was a U. S. Kerensky, which made far more news than his widely adopted Gary School Plan (alternating work, study, play...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...
...omit any mention of the Harvard Russian Circle? Surely there is some news-value in the fact that he spoke under the auspices of the Harvard Russian Circle, a non-political organization for the study and appreciation of Russian history and culture. I should think that you might even consider newsworthy the fact that there are at Harvard enough people with a non-political interest in Russia to form such a club. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Fuller '38, President, The Harvard Russian Circle...