Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent a telegram to President Roosevelt at the White House immediately after the news came over the radio that New Hampshire had deserted the Landon Column: "Congratulations on your election again, also on Mr. Farley's prediction, 'As Maine goes so goes Vermont.' " I meant by Mr. Farley's prediction that he had conceded Maine and Vermont to the Republicans. My modesty forbids my allowing anyone else to take credit...
...Philadelphia Record editorial department conducted an office pool in which members guessed the number of electoral votes. Closest and victor was Rewriteman Warren MacAllen who gave Landon only Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. On election night came news that the Knox New Hampshire paper had conceded the State to Roosevelt. Promptly wisecracked Rewriteman-Prognosticator MacAllen: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Credit to whom credit is due. Undoubtedly the idea burst to the lips of others; but MacAllen was ahead of Farley...
...William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News) intervening (see cut). All this being off the record, Ambassador Ronald Lindsay could not register a protest even though the parody took place in the White House...
Scoop No. 3 came last week from news-writing Newbold Noyes, a second cousin by marriage of Mrs. Simpson, a son of sedate President Frank Brett Noyes of the Associated Press, and a part-owner and associate editor of the Washington Star. About a month ago he cabled Cousin Wallis, asking if he could be of service to King Edward and herself. She cabled Cousin Newbold to come on over. He dined in Mrs. Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...