Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee...
...Game. Covering Spain is like covering a courthouse and not being able to get inside the courtrooms when anything exciting is happening. Faced with this problem, the correspondents had to develop a routine of their own. Since a few correspondents individually could not gather enough news, they have learned to cooperate. Whether at the Novelti bar in Rightist Salamanca or in the cafes of Madrid, reporters now congregate to exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away...
...Rightist censorship has been more rigid and systematic than the Government's, which occasionally lapses into periods of semi-freedom. This usually happens when news is thin. But when a correspondent tries to telephone a big story from Madrid, the receiving offices in Paris and London often get a curious blend of bells, roars and radio speeches This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier...
When a man outruns a horse, it isn't news. Last December Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a hundred-yard course in Havana, but it is an old carnival stunt. A man reaches his maximum speed in a few seconds. Over limited distances he can run up a big lead before the horse gets going. But last week in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., a man-&-horse race was given a new twist...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...