Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The April 5 copy of TIME which is my private, priceless knothole in the news-arid fence which keeps most of us "furriners" ignorant . . . just came through. Thanks...
...last week the Vice President had a tête-à-tête with the President of the U. S. Shortly after he emerged, an inconsequential item of news began to trickle through Washington. Political quidnuncs listened to it with blank surprise. If they had been told that in the face of pending Congressional action on a phalanx of important New Deal bills Franklin Roosevelt had decided to go off on a fishing trip, they would have been only mildly surprised. But this was man-bites-dog. John Nance Garner was going fishing in Texas, off for an indefinite...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
Author Brown cannot "recall any time when I did not think clearly," he was merely tired of living. A first sign of recovery was the return of his interest in reading. Asylum readers favored Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, the Saturday Evening Post. Except for suicide news, newspapers were seldom noticed. Most popular intellectual pursuit was crossword puzzles...
Society girls and shop girls float by on possessive arms, laughing at the weather, smoothing and beguiling the gullible male Ego. Cars start, cars stop, two bumpers clash, the paper boy shouts his news apologetically from the corner. High heels click on the wet sidewalks, wisps of conversation follow one upon another as feet come...