Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the President's mother went to see George M. Cohan impersonate her son in I'd Rather Be Right, the musical comedy in Manhattan which mildly spoofs the Administration. Mrs. Roosevelt Sr. had reserved her seat in another name, but the news leaked out backstage. Actor Cohan, who would not harm a fly unless it was a typhoid carrier, soft-pedaled a line here & there. But at other lines of his, such as "'If Eleanor would stay at home, I'd get a decent meal," Eleanor's mother-in-law heartily...
...first issue only five stories were over one column in length (Calvin Coolidge ever after referred to TIME stories as "eye-tems"), and although it was published in a busy week when Congress was winding up a session, spot news of the week received scant mention. Gradually TIME style developed. Gradually more and more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years...
United Press; has a score of expert researchers; employs another score of specialists to operate a "morgue" containing 12,000 reference books, and where 1,400,000 reports and articles are filed under 110,000 headings; in 1923 TIME'S news source was a big bundle of newspapers dropped at the office door morning and evening. Whereas TIME today has a staff of 20-odd full-time associate and contributing editor-writers. TIME'S editors 15 years ago had a staff of three or four full-time associates (two of whom frequently wrote...
There, bending over inky tables, amid torn newspapers, fried egg sandwiches, smudged proof sheets and pint milk bottles full of coffee, they read morning papers for late news items and about dawn put TIME...
Even then, despite its small staff, TIME kept its readers abreast of the news, if not ahead of it. During the first six months TIME'S cover subjects included not only the figures of 1923 (Uncle Joe Cannon, Warren Harding, Eleanor Duse, King Fuad, Hugo Stinnes, Andrew Mellon, E. M. House) but some who belong very much to 1938: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mustafa Kamâl Attatürk, Burton K. Wheeler, Benito Mussolini, John L. Lewis...