Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scotland's modest soft. Loch Ness monster "Nessy" at least has this over Ireland's Loch Dearg creature: photographic views of it have been published by the Illustrated London News and the New York Times...
...observation obviously demanded explanation, and indignant Columnists Pearson & Allen were glad to give it. As written and dispatched by United Feature Syndicate (Scripps-Howard) to its 300 subscriber newspapers, including two Hearstpapers, the day's column had contained in addition to the above quotation a startling piece of news. Under Hearst pressure, United Feature had ordered this news killed...
...news which Columnists Pearson & Allen had confirmed at first-hand was that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, having hired the President's son Elliott to run his Southwestern radio stations and the President's son-in-law John Boettiger to run his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had offered James A. Farley, the President's first lieutenant, $200,000 per year to become general manager of the Hearst-papers...
...could ride in Arkansas was second-class, in the Jim Crow car. When the conductor threatened to stop the train and have him arrested, he gave in, fumed in the Jim Crow car for four hours. When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled...
OUtbursts of collegiate enthusiasm are common and healthy signs of student activity, and Harvard has always had a full share. Peace rallies, military science parades, communist conclaves have elbowed each other for a position at the University news front. But seldom have students been given a more dramatic opportunity to combine political and humanitarian virtue and to spend money than by the most recent flash in the news pan. A Harvard Ambulance, resplendent in white paint and red lettering, bouncing dangerously across the Spanish terra to rescue democracy, is indeed a pretty picture...