Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had been embarrassed by John Lewis' demand that his automobile union be accorded the right to speak for all General Motors workers, he had reason to be even more embarrassed by Mr. Lewis' calm assumption of the right to speak for all Labor. Overshadowed in the news though they had been by the C. I. O. chieftain and his 1,400,000 men, American Federation of Labor leaders still represented 2,000,000 unionists, wielded a Congressional influence which Franklin Roosevelt had no desire to antagonize, and remained bitterly hostile not only to John L. Lewis...
...further news than you've got. Of course, I think in the interest of peace, there come moments when statements, conversation and headlines are not in order." The words were mild enough but the fact that the President took the unusual step of authorizing them for direct quotation showed that he wished them to sink...
...Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from which she would get "oil for the Japanese Navy to make war on America."Red Romm, A charge had been made by Prosecutor Vishinsky that many letters between Radek and Trotsky were carried by Vladimir Romm, erstwhile Washington correspondent of Izvestia ("News"), the official government newspaper. Comrade Romm was far enough down the list of witnesses so that before he was called a group of leading news correspondents in Washington had opportunity to rush a cable to U. S. Ambassador Davies in Moscow. They asked him to tell the Soviet Supreme Court...
...cases involving crimes for which Death is the penalty, sound Red propaganda makes a public trial advisable. Writes Eugene Lyons: "The prisoners brought to trial are always a handful carefully selected from a larger number arrested on the same charge . . . hand-picked specimens painstakingly sorted out." After Soviet news-organs have announced the confessions, convictions and executions, "a condemned man whose execution was announced may still be alive, as a result of a bargain or for some other reason. . . . The Soviet State does not deliver up the bodies of the men and women it executes. . . . There is not even habeas...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled...