Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington studios he wrote: "It is not within the province of reactionaries to put obstacles in the way of orderly development. . . . Indeed it may not be long before radio will make it possible for us to visualize at the breakfast table the front pages of daily newspapers or news reports...
...Commissionership of Immigration, vacant since Daniel W. MacCormack died last January, the President appointed his cousin Laura Delano's husband, James Lawrence Houghteling, onetime vice president and treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
...Haiti has a big coffee crop this year, and is producing bananas on an increasing scale," Minister Gordon told ship-news reporters this week. "She will ship her usual crop of a million stems of bananas to the United States this year and she will probably triple or quadruple that figure in a very few years. The Haitians have an extremely friendly feeling for us-they consider the United States their best friend...
Suit, Firmly embedded in U. S. folklore is the idea that Gangsterism got its seed and start in the circulation feuds of Chicago newspapers before the War. Last week rich, hardboiled Max Annenberg, now circulation director of the New York News (biggest in the U. S.), pre-War circulation manager in Chicago for Hearst and then the Tribune, took steps to clear his name of having had any part in fostering Chicago rough stuff. His lawyers began a libel suit for $250,000 against Burton Rascoe, author, and Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., publishers of the book, Before I Forget...
Most large college legacies, spotted as far in advance and nursed as diligently by their beneficiaries as prep-school football stars, are equally devoid of surprise. Last week officials of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., contemplating news of a legacy whose eventual value might reach $6,000,000, professed utter amazement. Said President William Otis Hotchkiss: "All I know about it is what I read in the papers...