Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terminated at the earliest practicable date consistent with affording the Philippines a reasonable opportunity to adjust their national economy. Thereafter it is contemplated that trade relations between the two countries will be regulated in accordance with a reciprocal trade agreement on a non-preferential basis." As soon as this news hit the Philippines, shares of local companies on the Manila Stock Exchange dropped an average of 12 points. It looked as if President Quezon had sold his country down the river, had done nothing but bring ruin several years closer. Then people in Manila began thinking about Mr. Quezon...
...Wheeler who favors gaining liberal ends by a Constitutional Amendment. Of Franklin Roosevelt's short cut he declared: "If I wanted to destroy the President I could think of no better way than to pass this bill." But Senator Wheeler's own ideas were dwarfed in news by his presenting the official views of the Court, a letter from Chief Justice Hughes answering specific questions put by Mr. Wheeler. True to Supreme Court tradition the Chief Justice confined his discussion to questions of Court efficiency, twice repeated a refusal to deal with the political issue at stake...
Nearly every kind of hot news story about Benito Mussolini began to sizzle in capitals from one end of Europe to the other last week, while Il Duce made still more news in sizzling Africa...
...journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station and shot a man who had always treated her with deference and courtesy in her role as a newspaper woman...
Wired the news in Austin, Governor James V. Allred, whose wife the day before had presented him with their third son, at first hoped it had been "exaggerated." But as further reports came from New London all Texas shuddered with the story of a disaster that outranked, for horror and staggering loss of life, anything since the S. S. General Slocum burned in New York City's East River in 1904. From Houston in a chartered bus hastened the advanced classes of the Landig College of Embalming...