Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless this whole statement was a tissue of deliberate lies. Dr. Seyss-Inquart had thus brought back from his conference with Herr Hitler very good news for Austrian Jews, Austrian Catholics and all 100% Austrians. After all, Hitler was born an Austrian, is an Austrian blood & bone. Since the Austrians are easygoing, fun-loving people, and Hitler knows it, it seemed likely that a ruthless, violent Prussian-style Nazification might not be forced on Adolf Hitler's native people...
...Liberal News Chronicle hailed "good old Gracie . . . universal pleasure." Pontificated the august, conservative Times: "Even the formal appellation of Grace, 'Mrs. Selinger, C. B. E.' cannot hide the boundless fame of Gracie Fields...
...Shining-Armor. was a big factor in enabling Conservative Party Leader Baldwin to win the next General Election. Meanwhile, Sir Samuel Hoare and French Premier Pierre Laval were privately engaged on a deal to condone Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The Hoare-Laval "Deal" leaked into the news a few days before its makers were ready to present it to the public as a high-minded effort to make peace on the basis of joint Anglo-French-Italian "carrying of Civilization to the barbarians of Ethiopia." It made such an ugly scandal that Mr. Baldwin had to take...
...sandaled peasant woman wandered into an abandoned garage and found the body of an 8-year-old girl, Olga Comacho, daughter of a bartender. Her throat was slashed. She had been ravished while returning from the village meat market. Through all the flyspecked rabbit warrens of Tijuana the news spread and quickly more news followed: a soldier from the garrison had been caught with the package of meat Olga Comacho was bringing home...
With approximately 1,000 young missionaries in foreign lands at all times, the Church proposes to train them in short; wave techniques, send them their instructions by radio, hear in return how the programs-news, music, lectures, little religion-are received. The Church's fourth man-in-command, Presiding Bishop Sylvester Quayle Cannon, informed the F.C.C. that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially...