Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Post-Dispatch in the recent campaign. This is not true. While I do not think the nature of my connection with the paper is of public interest, anyone pretending to write about St. Louis newspapers from the inside should know that my work has always been confined to the news and my responsibilities as well...
...message, ''Country, 523; Country Club, 8," was, therefore, a news report to an editorial writer and in terms intended to be both clear and complimentary...
...FOREIGN NEWS...
...China, nothing is ever exactly what it seems except an assassination, and the kidnapping of the greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
Sian, whence news of the kidnapping was flashed, is almost as remote and centrally located in China as though President Roosevelt were kidnapped among the Rocky Mountains. The kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang, sent out over his military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo from his soldiers, an operation involving treachery by numerous persons, if not hundreds, for all soldiers in China ought to be the Premier's. If the Young Marshal had demanded say $50,000,000 ransom money, the whole thing would have been orthodox, for Mme Chiang is of China...