Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, businessmen with a monetary stake in the Coronation, such as hotel-men, makers of Coronation mugs and bunting, etc., grew frantic at their inability to find in British papers last week news absolutely vital to their private business. Many of them had Manhattan papers read back to them by transatlantic telephone. London insurance brokers were suddenly swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take...
...meeting of the British News Proprietors Association was held last week under pressure from the Cabinet and a decision taken that "because of the imminence of the Coronation and the social consequences" of reporting the Simpson divorce it would not even be mentioned in British newspapers. Simultaneously Scotland Yard operatives took the number of the motorcar of an Associated Press photographer who was taking pictures of furniture being moved into Mrs. Simpson's new house and warned him that the political branch of Scotland Yard is "clearing this street." The U. S. photographer refused to be intimidated and made...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...paid for most of his vacations with etchings, some of which are now worth over $1,000 apiece, of the cities he has seen. Yet for all his fame he is not above turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. Pride of Muirhead Bone are mural-panels by his son Stephen and daughter-in-law Mary, in the Queen Mary's library...
Polling New York City and State, the New York News fortnight ago reported that 10,771 people approached by News representatives at home and in the street were going to vote for Franklin Roosevelt Nov. 3 as compared with 6,775 who favored Alf Landon for President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor...