Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names make news."Last week these names made this news...
...unvarying price of $1.50 per meal; baking 15 loaves of 50? bread in his big cookstove thrice a week; swapping supplies for gold at $32 the ounce; introducing to the civilization over which he presides such novelties as moving pictures, electric lights, and a short-wave radio which brings news from Berlin and London but cannot get Seattle...
...hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
...insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle to win third place. Tiny Betty Grunstra, 12, of Clifton, N. J. and the Passaic Herald News, fell down on plebeian. "Best speller" was chunky, 14-year-old Waneeta Beckley of Louisville's Holy Name School and the Courier-Journal, who corrected Runner-up Grunstra and then spelled promiscuous for good measure...
...England. Despite enthusiastic response from advertisers, who welcomed its display opportunities, the magazine was whittled down before publication to 11¼ by 14 in., to make it manageable on newsstands. The first issue represented an investment of about $100.000. Best augury for its success last week was news of two competitors. Stage advertised a July issue completely devoted to the Cinema. Forthcoming is another high-class cinemagazine, Cinema Preview, to be published in San Francisco...