Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this oblique fashion was announced the biggest news emanating from Washington in many a week. It meant that Franklin Roosevelt, after four months' stubborn insistence on his original plan for enlarging the Court, was at last willing to compromise...
...Church of England is governed by the several bishops reigning in their several dioceses. I now find it is come to be some kind of novel body governed by the British Broadcasting Corp. and by two archbishops, Canterbury and York. I do not like it." As soon as news of Vicar Jardine's bold gesture became known, however, the bold Bishop of Durham insisted that he had had nothing to do with it, would have strongly disapproved had he been consulted. But he pointed out that British clergymen on the Continent are outside their normal dioceses...
...great novelty in U. S. restaurants are the little cards which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity...
...years has sat dressy little President Getulio Vargas, who elected himself the first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official" (i. e., majority) candidate for the presidency...
...Salles de Oliveira to keep his onetime friend Vargas from succeeding himself, was left stranded absurdly without an issue. Hemmed in by a solid wall of Federal troops suspiciously watching for any trouble he might start with his 30,000 militiamen, Governor Flores da Cunha received without enthusiasm the news that Candidate Salles de Oliveira was about to charter a steamship for a barnstorming campaign along the coast...