Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest war news from the Spanish front, however, was what went on behind the fighting lines on both sides. At Irún on the Rightist side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason...
...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
Ninety per cent of all news from China is piped to the world through Shanghai. Ninety per cent of all newshawks in China get most of their facts and write most of their stories in the lounges and bars of the three big hotels along the International Settlement's Bund: the Palace and Cathay hotels and across the Garden Bridge, the Astor House...
...newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants at a maximum cost of $10. To carry to the world the news of which coaster-wagon rolled down the 1,175-11. chute fastest, there were no less than 15 press wires...
Another step in the practical consolidation of the Hearst empire (TIME, July 5 et seq.) was accomplished last week when International News Service took over Universal Service. Universal was the personal mouthpiece of William Randolph Hearst. It went to his morning papers, carrying news written to reflect the Chief's most cherished ideas. It also carried his biggest personal scoops, like the positive statement last November that Edward VIII would marry Mrs. Simpson...