Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disguised health trip necessitated by his being found in the coma of a dread disease. The purport of these quotations being outrageously untrue, libelous and incendiary, the White House did not wish to dignify them by denial but put the case of the McClure Syndicate up to the Washington news fraternity to deal with in its own way, for its own honor...
...feet in the air the quick clap of a snapping guy-rope sounds no worse to the ear of a tight-rope walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were progressing...
...papers do not make much money. Each diocese has its local sheet, usually vended near the church on Sunday. Price of the paper (1? to 5?) seldom covers the expenses of the publication. Advertisements are often of the sort not acceptable to the lay press. Manhattan's Catholic News, which bears the recommendation of Cardinal Hayes as "a friendly, newsy paper," carries the advertising of foot masseurs, $2 doctors, "a Gonzaga University Priest Chemist's" preparation for the hair. Our Sunday Visitor of Huntington. Ind., which is running a big religious picture contest similar to Old Gold...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Maryland's Governor Harry Whinna Nice planned to enter a Manhattan hospital for an operation to remove his right eye, injured in a fall three years...
...arrangement effected years ago, the press stood no death watch on Rockefeller as it does on other aged and ailing celebrities. Instead, his Manhattan public relations counsel, T. J. Ross (successor to Ivy Lee), telephoned the news to major press agencies...