Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debt. Biggest news in the President's budget was a figure hidden halfway through his message: the sum which he expects the public debt to reach next June at the close of fiscal 1937, the sum at which he hopes it will stay during fiscal 1938, the sum from which he hopes it will decline thereafter, the ultimate pinnacle to which the New Deal plans to carry the U. S. Government. This mystic number...
Said the boy's father, Dr. William W. Mattson, when the news was brought to him: "I feared it. I feared when they pulled that boy out into the night that something like this would happen...
...Children's Hour. Jimmy Walker paid $500 for a pair of Blue Azore chickens to take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: The U. S. Senate passed a bill granting a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow of the 30th President...
...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...