Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little but good news had Franklin Roosevelt ever had from the political surveys of FORTUNE, whose poll last autumn indicated his re-election with an error of only about 1% in the popular vote, whose poll in April indicated that 52.6% of the people favored a third term for him. Last week, FORTUNE'S June issue carried a special supplement giving a preview of its July poll on the President's popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas...
...could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...
...First news of a series of check forgeries that have been occurring during the year leaked out Tuesday afternoon, when an unknown person attempted to cash a forged check in the Harvard Trust Company, it was learned yesterday...
With the opening of the C.I.O.'s official campaign to unonize the Ford Motor Company and the news of the ensuing riots and bloodshed the reading public will feel, in all likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...
Following up their success in "Love Is News," Tyrone Power and Loretta Young again crash through with the goods in their latest vehicle, "Cafe Metropole," now showing at R.K.O. Keith...