Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...British Mothers Union, of which Queen Mary is a patroness, was reported by the New York Times to have adopted last week in its 13,000 branches (membership: 577,000) an attitude of "anxious concern." The Pauline Revere who is at tempting to spread news of the King & Mrs. Simpson among organized British Mothers was identified as Mrs. Frank Theodore Woods, widow of the Bishop of Winchester, who resides at Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported...
...been proceeding for 20 days and was directly in command not of the Generalissimo but of General Jose Varela, the man who went to the rescue of Toledo and lifted the famed siege of the Alcazar (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week Generalissimo & President Franco was in Salamanca when news of the Italo-German recognition came and with him rejoiced Spain's No. 1 Philosopher, famed Miguel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca. With the whole city celebrating, anyone who looked like an Italian or a German was hoisted shoulder-high by Salamancans who in lisping Spanish...
...Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August, the weekly Gringoire and other Paris organs of the Right have been hammering at hard-boiled Minister Salengro while he hammered back so vigorously that in punishment for Gringoire's attacks and others the great Havas news agency was recently forced by the Premier to drop one of its leading directors (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, after the suicide of the Minister of Interior, officials of the Ministry of Interior, which controls the police and communications systems, broke the French law insuring non-censorship of cables...
...work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight ago 3,000 spectators were waiting in the stands to see Howard play Virginia Union when an announcer ran breathless onto the field with the news that the Bisons had quietly walked out on the game...