Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Germans last week the news from London of dissension in the British Cabinet and fawning in the House of Lords produced an immediately stiffened attitude toward Lord Halifax. British references to the Viscount's visit as one of "exploration" caused a whole string of Nazi news-organs-reciting the words of the official Nazi press service-to retort: "Adolf Hitler's Germany needs no 'exploration.' The German position is perfectly clear. 'Explorations' might better be sent into the jungle of England's own policy...
...Ludwig was informed by airway officials that the Belgian Sabena airliner carrying his family had crashed while attempting an emergency landing at fog-covered Ostend airport, killing all. Prostrate, young Prince Ludwig was rushed to the home of friends, Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...
...fund from the Arnold Bernstein & Red Star Lines' profits to be held for a rainy day of the two lines (whose two chief creditors are the Erie R. R. and Chemical Bank & Trust Co.). This entire sum was returned to Germany some months ago. Hamburg lawyers scoffed at news stories that Bernstein "faces death," expected him to get anything from a five-year jail sentence to pardon...
...child artists who have begun to make news in Federal Art Project classes are as fresh as cinema tots are synthetic. Last week the first U. S. art gallery devoted exclusively to work by 4-to-15-year-old talents opened in Washington, sponsored jointly by WPA and city officials. But a Federal Art Project class in Manhattan stole the children's show of the week with an exhibition of paintings, under each of which WPA Instructor Victor Laredo had stuck the artist's verbal description of his work. Samples: ¶ "Hey, you know who this...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...