Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news of this bloody Kurdish affray- the climax, according to Prime Minister Ismet Inonü, of "659 recent disturbances in the Dersim region"-was carefully kept out of Turkey's press until the last brigand had been sent flying...
...stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept a dark secret long after the red and grey plane left Moscow. Then a Canadian radio station plucked the news from the ether that: "We are three hours from the Pole, flying nicely...
...Another weekly got a new publisher last week when Malcolm Muir resigned as president of McGraw-Hill (Business Week, Engineering News-Record, Coal Age, Aviation) to take over the guidance of News-Week...
Biggest U. S. news story of 1937 is the resurgence of Labor. Far longer lived than the Great Flood story and even deeper in its social and political significance than President Roosevelt's battle with the Supreme Court, it is news breaking on a hundred fronts and its ultimate direction and meaning are as exciting as they are as yet unpredictable. The great process of U. S. daily journalism is fashioned along reportorial rather than interpretive lines. Therefore, the very nature of the newspaper business-as well as the diffuse and widespread nature of the phenomenon itself-has made...
...press associations for complete coverage, and tell Washington correspondents to get some quotes from John L. Lewis, William Green, and Government sources. Notable in the year's early reporting of Labor were the dispatches of Paul Gallico, former sports editor, who returned to the New York News in January to cover the human side of the General Motors sit-down strike at Flint...