Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers of Dr. Frank Buchman, Elsie Janis believes in divine guidance. Unlike Oxford Groupers, she thinks of God in military terms - a Commander- in-Chief issuing His inexorable orders from General Headquarters. Last week, as the result of such a G. H. Q. order, Miss Janis used the News of Tarrytown, N. Y., where she owns famed Phillipse Manor (built in 1683), to reveal her plan to dispose of that 15-acre estate, auction off her other effects for local charities later this summer. Wrote Miss Janis to the News editor...
When the weather makes national news, a place called Hell, Mich, is likely to get into it somehow. Last winter editors were not above informing their readers that Hell had frozen over. In the midst of last week's heat wave the Associated Press supplied its members with an item to the effect that Hell was fairly roasting...
Barking his opinionated views-on-the-news into a microphone, Philadelphia's Harold ("Boake") Carter functions simultaneously as an advertisement for Philco Radio and as a contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU...
...having paid $75 for the piece, which it had not yet printed, was boiling. When investigation showed that the yarn was highly inaccurate, had appeared in print week before in the Sunday Worker, Editor Leach bleated to the National Publishers Association. That organization's warning broadside uncovered the news that Brown had worked his swindle on two other magazines: Scribner's, for $125; North American Review, for $75. Neither had yet published the story. In each case Brown got his money quickly by saying he had to catch a train back to Alaska at once...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...