Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voters who could not understand the ballots but had given the Democrats, snowed under by 450,000 votes for Fusionist Fiorello H. LaGuardia in the mayoralty race, a majority of 14 of the council's 26 members. Having earnestly supported the scheme before the election, the tabloid Daily News last week expressed its disillusionment with characteristic spice: "Unlike our contemporaries, we can make mistakes. ... P. R. as operated here smells...
...between China and Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
...announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred to his paper's Washington branch, Reporter Lyman had heard nothing about the impending visit and the rumor presently died. Last week, when the U. S. Liner President...
...fact that the President Harding docked on a Sunday morning gave newspapers time enough to discover at least how one of the world's most famed individuals had kept the news of his whereabouts a secret for a week. In Weald, Kent, where the Lindberghs' children, Jon and Land, remained last week, villagers are trained to secrecy about the Lindberghs. They booked passage as Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. Embarking at Southampton, Colonel Lindbergh wore dark glasses, remained unrecognized. For the first 24 hours of the voyage, he and his wife stayed in their cabins. To a steward, sent...
...highest quarters the opinion that grave unrest is stirring in Russia; that the Soviet Union's effective strength in warfare has been greatly reduced by these conditions; that Dictator Stalin is now maintaining himself in power only by the most terroristic methods. These points came out not as "news" but as the considered opinions of statesmen...