Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...April 15, 1912, a small group was standing about a gaping cellar at No. 25 South St., Manhattan, about to lay the cornerstone of the Seamen's Church Institute when newsboys ran past shouting the terrible news that the White Star Liner Titanic, largest ship afloat, had sunk with 1,513 passengers after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Year later on the same day the completed building was dedicated and the 200-ft. tower atop its 13 floors was named the Titanic Lighthouse Tower. Last week, on the twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns...
...without advertising, were in evidence. First to dandelion onto U. S. newsstands was They Say, a yellow-jacketed, staff-written journal of opinion featuring "the views ... of the audience rather than the orator, of the pews rather than the pulpit." Publisher Herbert Hungerford, 62, onetime American News Co. executive, editor a generation ago of Success, and Editor Ross Duff Whytock, 48, former newshawk for the New York Evening World, hoped to secure their readers' views by offering good pay for good letters...
Last and least on last week's list was Re-Vue, edited by slender Fillmore Hyde, 43, sometime writer of the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," former executive editor for News-Week and Today. Rehashed in almost almanac form was news of the month of March, interspersed with brief summary articles in a "snappy" vein, and with astonishingly crude line drawings and maps. Hope for Re-Vue's surviving resided chiefly in its list of financial backers which included William Hale Harkness, President Thomas R. Coward of Coward-McCann, Inc., William Gilman...
...radio stations, nine dailies and the Sunday-supplement American Weekly. By no means did Mr. Hearst tell all. Although the registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such Hearst interests as King Features, Hearst Metrotone News, Cosmopolitan Productions (cinema). But revealed in some 250 pages of text and tabulations was many a Hearst publishing secret, many a Hearst business oddity...