Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine on Negro labor, advocated sinking the picker in the Mississippi River, together with its plans and specifications. In Tennessee, which still has antiEvolution laws on its books. Democratic National...
...parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite of microscope) by which he imagined the 72 combined brains focused as one instrument upon...
...Crooner Richman had a special Wright Cyclone engine installed in his smgle-motored $95,000 Vultee monoplane Lady Peace. For a co-pilot he picked Eastern Air Lines' No. 1 Flyer Henry Tindall ("Dick"') Merrill, who has flown 2,000,000 miles without injury, last year made news by flying a plane from the U. S. to Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender...
Shortly it seemed the Vatican might be doubling Archbishop Cicognani's fist, raising it for a blow. From Director Giulio Castelli of Rome's La Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming...
...Some psychologists hold that everybody is crazy now. Dr. A. J. Desloges, director of hospitals for the insane for the province of Quebec, said that "the whole world would be insane in a quarter of a century," later revised his figures, made it ten years. He added the doleful news that the population in mental hospitals is increasing, but ''there are more insane outside of the hospitals than in them...