Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House conference day later cagey News Reporter John O'Donnell jockeyed incident Roosevelt into openly denouncing the press subsidy by the Government as an "unhealthy thing." Grinning, the President suggested that the press might well campaign for repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation...
...fake newspaper front page. However, when one of Massachusetts' tireless, keen-eyed radio "hams" spied such an imaginary newspaper page heading a radio tube advertisement in her January copy of the magazine QST, she took a magnifying glass to the tiny glyphs under a headline GOOD NEWS! Shocked, she tattled to her postmaster that she had discovered something far from dull. He called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hygrade Sylvania Corp., which made the tubes, shifted the blame to its advertising agency. The agency communicated hotly with the commercial studio which drew the ad. The studio hotly pounced...
...news about cancer to which reputable specialists pay attention is not wild announcements of a sure cure for all types of the disease, but sober reports of cancer facts dug up in laboratories and hospitals which may eventually, by long hard work, lead to a cancer cure. Last week cancer researchers in the U. S., working harder than ever because of new organizations and contributions paid attention to some new cancer facts reported from France and England...
...notch salesman. Doc Robinson has never forgotten how, in his behind-the-counter drugstore days, he once sold five one-gallon jugs of mineral oil to a man who came in to buy a pint. Besides its own building in Moscow, Psychiana owns three drugstores, a daily paper, the News-Review. An accomplished organist, the founder has an 800-pipe Wurlitzer in his big Moscow home, invariably includes organ solos (preferably Brahms) in his infrequent lectures. Though in those lectures Doc Robinson is inclined to blast the Christian churches, thus annoying many of his hearers, he has Christian charities...
...Friend Bill were announced. By next week Ford Motor Co. hopes to take back about 25,000 River Rouge plant workers. Chrysler Corp. announced it will take back 55.000. Hudson Motor Car Co. announced it will take on 6.000. In two respects Hudson's announcement was the biggest news because i) 6.000 more men will double Hudson's present payroll. 2) the purpose of the increase is to bring out a new low-priced car. It will be called the Hudson 112, will sell for $25 to $30 more than the average standard model price of Chevrolet, Ford...