Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preserved, but instead of trying to dramatize a patchwork of fragments from the book, Collaborators Lewis & Moffitt wisely created some new incidents on which to prop the play. One of them shows Corpo troops going from house to house to break radio tubes because Senator Trowbridge is broadcasting news of Corpo atrocities from Canada. In the novel, Doremus Jessup was a tough-fibred fighter for the Liberal cause. In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered. It is his spinster friend, Lorinda Pike, who spots...
That night, as the nation hummed with the news of Franklin Roosevelt's reelection, newshawks in Texas remembered that the Vice President was also winning. Reaching for their telephones, they called the Garner home in Uvalde. "I'm sorry," answered the operator, "but they have stopped answering the telephone." In the midst of the greatest landslide since 1820, John Nance Garner slept as usual...
Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
Therefore it was news that the smiling boyish face of the grandson of the late Henry Cabot Lodge will appear in his grandfather's place in the U. S. Senate. It was still more striking because Henry Cabot Lodge II, 34, not only defeated foxy old Governor James M. Curley, but successfully strode through the Democratic landslide that smashed many an old-time Republican...
Chicago Time. Last March Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time all year round. Biggest backer of the change was arch-Republican Colonel Robert R. McCormick who wanted to get an hour's more news every day for his morning Tribune, take away an hour's news from his rival, Colonel Frank Knox's afternoon News. This week Chicagoans were given an opportunity not of settling the question but making their preferences known by an advisory referendum on three questions 1) Shall Chicago have Eastern Time (daylight saving all year round...