Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...
...When news got out eight weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation...
...Kent, a former Princess of Greece who is "class-conscious" to a degree, and a bit snippy about being "the best dressed woman in the British Royal Family," had changed her mind about visiting her sister-in-law. From British sources in Vienna next day came no more definite news than that the Kents were "leaving for Yugoslavia and would visit the Windsors en route...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
During Premier Fumimaro Konoye's maiden speech to the Japanese Diet, his son, Fumitaka Konoye, captain of the goll team at Princeton where he is a junior, sat in the press gallery as a reporter for the Domei News Agency. His report: ' It may be impolite to say so, but father's speech failed to impress me. I expected more of him especially since his speech was polished by the "Cabinet. When I observed his hesitant manner, I became nervous...