Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of the exhilaration of an oldtime Irish wake, and the chief intoxicant was politics. In hotel lobbies, even in the church, mourners peered at their fellows and whispered in little groups. "Who is So-&-So backing?" "There's Such-&-Such-what does he want?" The Chattanooga News with unwonted journalistic frankness said that the city was the scene of a three-day unofficial Senatorial convention...
...Labor discontent, was not going anything like so well (TIME, May 3). Originally scheduled to open May 1, it is currently trying to be ready for visitors May 25. Last week Premier Blum was gloomily sticking to that date, despite the pessimism of his opponents, when news broke that cast him into still deeper gloom...
...also greatly strengthened Leftist morale. The Basque lines again held firm, pushing back General Mola's men at several points. Then came a bit of news even more galling to the pride of Benito Mussolini than the rout at Brihuega. In an attempt to encircle Bilbao Italian troops pushed ahead. One Italian brigade reached the port of Bermeo eight miles from the capital on the Biscay coast, captured it. Here they were counterattacked by Basque militia, for the most part fishermen and their armed wives. When the Italians broke ranks, the bloodthirsty fishwives chased them into houses, beat them...
...citizens' chief interest in last week's Yukon news was not gold or provincial politics. President Roosevelt has already given his blessing to a scheme for building a $20,000,000 motor highway through British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska. With the fusion of British Columbia and the Yukon there is a better chance that the road will get under way. This project, endorsed by many a tourist organization and chamber of commerce, is disliked by those who think that such a road might be used for military purposes in the event of war between...
Last week, four hours after Banker Bache, 75, had sailed to spend the summer in London with his daughter, wife of Theatrical Producer Gilbert Miller, Mr. Bache's lawyer summoned reporters, gave them news that within a year not only the Grand Duchess Marie but any other resident or visitor in Manhattan will be able to see Raphael's Giuliano de'Medici at almost any time. Banker Bache, for a quarter-century one of the most important art collectors in the U. S., was giving his entire collection to the public and turning over his home...