Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a U. S. church, when in need of money, knows of philanthropists who are good for a touch. But rare is the touchee available to more than one sect. Thus last week the richest man in Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 14,763) made news by paying off the debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly...
Even as McCracken was dying, the parents of the killer, publishers of the weekly Plaindealer & Modoc County Times, issued their newspaper with this lead story: "As we go to press the tragic news is brought to us that our son Harry French has shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail. McCracken is seriously hurt. We ask you, our readers, to pray for us all in this hour of tragedy. Please pray for us that the injured man recovers. We apologize for the uncompleted parts in our paper. Our strength and heart in our work is gone tonight...
...never any doubt about what was happening and why. Knowing Chico gave her the courage to walk across the catwalk from his room to his neighbor, Street-washer Gobin, and, later, to chase her mean sister (Gale Sondergaard) downstairs. It gave her the courage also, when she got news of Chico's death, not to believe it. After the Armistice was signed, Diane put the onion soup on the stove early to have it ready when he got back. At supper time, Chico was there...
...while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help. To England the news was as shocking as the crash of the China Clipper would...
Died. Frederick William MacMonnies, 73, sculptor; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A boyhood playmate of Artist Charles Dana Gibson who cut silhouets while he modeled in chewing gum, Sculptor MacMonnies made his biggest news in 1932 when his Civic Virtue was condemned by New York feminists because a male figure had his foot on a female figure's neck...