Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriated $35,000 for an investigation of the mayor of Wildwood, a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May. At the same time Wildwood's Independent Taxpayers' League announced they would circulate a petition demanding the Mayor's resignation. Such news might pain an ordinary U. S. mayor, but not Wildwood's 41-year-old Doris Warren Bradway. She is used to trouble...
...Italian news correspondents in Britain hustled back to London from their week ends last week, hastily packed, started for home. On orders from Il Duce himself, all Italian correspondents were recalled from Britain, all British newspapers, with the exception of the pro-Fascist Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Observer, were barred from Italy, and a semi-official boycott of the entire British Coronation was clamped on the Italian press. Immediately after the order, not a word of British news appeared in Italian papers. Even Italian newsreels were snipped of all British scenes. Elaborate pictorial supplements were ripped...
Thus cut off from news of the Coronation, Italian readers missed most of the following last-minute details...
...gave Goebbels virtual ownership. In March, even before the switch in directors, an anonymous group bought control of UFA from the Hugenberg group. Berlin film men insisted last week that the real owner of UFA and Tobis is the Franz Eher Publishing Co., which in turn publishes the Nazi news-organ Volkischer Beobachter, and of which Adolf Hitler is supposed to be a partner...
Soldier Son. On the spring evening 25 years ago when Christian was called to the throne, he was already acting ruler in his father's absence. The bad news came from Hamburg. There his tall father, Frederik VIII, had been out for an evening stroll alone. Queen Louise (a Swedish-Norwegian princess) was at home in Copenhagen. A heart attack overtook the old gentleman (he was 68). Passersby helped him to a hospital, none knowing who he was. For hours he lay on a public mortuary slab before identification was made...