Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News New York City...
...telephone call was put through to Mrs. Roosevelt. "My heart sank," said she in her syndicated diary, "for I knew that only something serious would make my rather careful husband telephone from that distance." A few moments later she heard Franklin Roosevelt, speaking from Buenos Aires, break the news that his personal bodyguard, Gus Gennerich, had dropped dead of heart disease...
...took place last week at a private luncheon and caucus of 24 of Pennsylvania's 27 Democratic Congressmen in Washington's Hotel Mayflower. Host was Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Newshawks hovering about the doors of the suite waited for someone to break the news of what had happened. First to emerge was Representative J. Burrwood Daly of Philadelphia. He cut questioners short...
...heels of the News of Edward VIII's abdication comes the rumor as yet unconfirmed, that Mr. Windsor will be the next police commissioner for James M. Curley, late defeated candidate for Senator, or maybe the rumor is "Curley for King, Wally for Commissioner...
...adage is true that one must go abroad to hear news of home. Stories of big week-ends drift back slowly; and viewed from the calm comfort of sobriety, incidents which were heartbreakingly disappointing are not without their tinges of humour...