Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story in the world...
...Godfrey Thomas, for 15 years Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and now Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward, recently conferred at length with Mr. Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII's intentions. From London by telephone suddenly came to Hearst editors, with authority to front-page it at once, a story to rank with some of the achievements of Mr. Hearst's only real rival in U. S. publisher-reporting, Roy Wilson Howard. This dispatch, couched...
...Simp son is that he ardently loves her, and does not see why a King should be denied the privilege of marrying the lady he loves." Morgan & King. This by no means ended the struggle being waged to prevent the British public from becoming in formed. Reynolds Illustrated News of London meanwhile came out with a flat assertion that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull will be asked to silence on the subject of Mrs. Simpson "a weekly periodical with a large and influential circulation." Reynolds continued: "At the same time efforts will be made to have pressure brought...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news hawks as he boarded the Queen Mary, "Tarzan" Weissmuller tartly observed: "I suppose they'll be making me a ball player next...