Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the news overshadowed everything else at Vanderbilt's commencement exercises, even an address by the Bank of England's eminent Economist Sir Josiah Stamp, for not only had James Hampton Kirkland been the "Chance" longer than almost anyone could remember but his 44 years at Vanderbilt had spanned one of the most successful university presidencies...
...northern part of the State has two great bridges, one across the Bay, the other across the Golden Gate, lately opened with two gigantic fiestas (TIME, Nov. 23 & June 7). For Southern California it is worse that it contains a bridge which has made a lot of horrid news- Pasadena's notorious "suicide bridge," the long, aqueduct-like structure spanning 158½-ft.-deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
During the 52 years George Bannerman Dealey has worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing...
Other two Dallas dailies are the Times-Herald and Dispatch, both afternoon papers. The Times-Herald, whose 71,000 circulation runs 21,000 ahead of the Journal, lost no time proclaiming itself the only paper in town carrying complete turf news. The Dispatch (5,000 behind the Journal), which has been soft-pedaling racing news lately, did not change policy. Of the letters and telegrams received by the News and Journal, it was reported that 15-to-1 approved their position. In any event, Dallas merchants, who naturally are opposed to seeing potential customers spend their money with bookmakers...