Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does? That's news we are waiting...
Your announcement in TIME, Oct. 12, p. 89 (". . . The half hour weekly radio period will best compliment and parallel TIME'S news reporting.") sounds ominous...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...
Said the London Financial News: "It would be wholly incorrect to assume-despite Mr. Morgenthau's statement-that a sort of 'new gold standard' stabilization is hereby achieved...
More good news for Britons came in a speech to the 1912 Club by Sir Henry Page-Croft: "There has been much windy talk that if another war takes place it will 'end civilization.' This of course is sheer nonsense. Even if London were subjected to a pitiless hail of bombs and gas, it is childish to imagine that such frightfulness would be the end of England, much less the end of the British Empire...