Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reform v. Machine. Because New Dealer LaGuardia succeeded in winning in a Republican primary, because most of New York City's newspapers, including Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Joseph Medill Patterson's News are his firm supporters, the primary results were hailed as a great LaGuardia victory. Such they were, for stubby little firebrand LaGuardia had bothered to make only one campaign speech...
...Buffalo. No cholera statistics were available from Chinese sections of Shanghai but in the French Concession alone there were 450 cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers and lower temperatures can avert a major epidemic." Latest news was that 50 people per day were dying...
...League of Nations Charles Theodore te Water. He declared that South Africa "would be willing to participate in a general agreement for the return to Germany of her former colonies, if it cost South Africa none of its security." This so alarmed London bigwigs that Reuters, the news agency closest to the Government, requested all newsorgans in the United Kingdom to withhold further publication of remarks by Mr. Charles te Water who next said in Montreal: "I was speaking only in my personal capacity for I believe the atmosphere can be cleared by discussing with Germany all her general grievances...
...Reich. He played the game of the Second Reich (which preceded the Nazis) adroitly for years-the game of Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "The Spirit of Locarno" and the Young Plan. When Dr. Schacht thought that game was up he resigned as President of the Reichsbank and appeared in the news less frequently-suddenly was found to be sitting on Adolf Hitler's bandwagon as President of the Reichsbank again (TIME, March...
...When news of the extraordinary birth reached Clarksburg, busy Dairyman Poth had to stop work to show the sextuplets to scores of visitors. Said he, "I was so completely surprised I could hardly believe my eyes. I didn't think it was possible. I want to raise the heifer calves, but I don't know whether I will raise the bull." He said he valued the mother at $300, the calves at $15 each. However, the whole little herd may be valueless. In multiple mixed births, the calves are usually free-martins (hermaphrodites), useless for milking or breeding...