Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 2-Speaking of the Pope's illness, just say, without making it appear a real denial, that the news about the expected arrival of an English physician is false...
...March 5-Absolutely suppress any news of the arrival in Naples of wounded volunteers from Spain on one of our hospital ships...
...Colonel Franco had agreed to accept the five-month-old recommendation of a neutral military commission that Paraguay move its troops back off a 50-mile road connecting Bolivia's Chaco headquarters with her rich Santa Cruz de la Sierra agricultural district. To soften the blow of this news at home, his Foreign Minister Juan Stefanich delivered a three-hour harangue at Asuncion explaining that Paraguay would have "free transit" over the road. Shrieking that this was a lie, the Bolivian Cabinet angrily voted not to name a minister to Asuncion. This passage threw the Paraguayan Army into such...
...capstone to the Golden Gloves Boxing tournaments run by newspapers in three U. S. cities, the New York Daily News last week staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight...
...Other news concerning the growth of plants came last week from Harvard University, which announced receipt of a gift of $615,773 for a long-range research program to increase the rate at which plants convert solar energy into stores of energy available to man. Donor was Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Boston's blueblooded 76-year-old carbon black manufacturer who graduated from Harvard in 1882, magna cum laude. In memory of his late wife Mr. Cabot designated his gift the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research...