Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss sends me." Included in last week's Presidential...
Parliament (TIME, Nov. 8), it was startling good news to millions of Britons last week to see gouty Neville leaping gracefully over a stone wall as he enjoyed his New Year's holiday...
...days & nights Jauncey and his helpers worked almost without interruption to make other films. When the A. A. A. S. meeting opened at Indianapolis on December 27, they were ready with their results but it was too late to fit them into the program. Nevertheless news of what Jauncey was doing had leaked out into the scientific world and the physicists were so anxious to hear him that a special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that...
...York News has 1,600,000 daily circulation and the courage of its errors. It pours more ashes in its beard in a year than most other journals do in a generation. Last week the News was at it again. Postmaster General Farley had just announced that the Post Office had lost $46,614,723 in the year ending June 30, 1937. but had it not handled second-class mail (papers & periodicals) for a $89,148,809 loss it would have made...
...extent that the News mails papers," said the breast-beating News, which has only 3,600 mail subscribers, "it participates in this subsidy-a subsidy which smells louder as time goes...