Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore I expect to be deserted by all my wives, sweethearts and beautiful female operatives as soon as they are unfortunate enough to peruse a copy of TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout...
From Honolulu Acme News Pictures Inc. dispatched a photograph of a native mother and babe, captioned: "All right everybody, hold your seats. Here...
When this news reached School District No. 86, most of its 125 families bristled with indignation. Well they knew that shy, kindly Principal O'Hearn, since he went to the District in 1923, had wangled a four-room yellow brick schoolhouse for their children, bought lunches and shoes for needy pupils out of his own pocket. Housewives insisted that he was so respectful of women that he colored whenever he met one. When parents last fortnight called a public meeting to "vindicate" him. the three complaining schoolma'ams did not appear. Indignantly the School Board fired all three...
With the frightening approach of Argentine corn and the ''pessimistic" news that showers had wet down Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Iowa, corn sold off at week's end, dropping below wheat again...
...Names make news." Last week these names made these news: In Northampton, Mass. "The Beeches," home of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, has been for sale since last winter. Last week it was revealed that Mrs. Coolidge. now touring in Denmark, had purchased a large lot opposite the Northampton home of her good friend & fellow tourist, Mrs. Florence B. Adams, with whom she has been living...