Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominated majority, this was actually a very pale pink. Last week the French Press blazed with the boasts, threats and possible and probable intentions of just one man: Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Aside from France's money troubles (see p. 71), this rich old Jew last week made news at every breath...
...quadruplets, a German-born carpenter who two weeks ago had obtained a $20-a-week railroad shop job after 18 months' unemployment, was far from pleased to learn that the number of his offspring had risen from two to six overnight. Sourly he observed: "That's big news." Then he went back to work, angry because he was an hour late...
Transferred to a private room as the delighted hospital's guest, Mrs. Kasper remained unhappy. Mindful of the publicity windfall which the Dionne quintuplets brought to Callander, Ontario, the mayor of Passaic begged the Governor of New Jersey for State money to keep the Kasper quadruplets alive. A news photographer paid Father Kasper $750 for permission to photograph the infants. Cried the mayor to the father: "Don't sign anything, even if it's good, until the legal staff of Passaic has looked it over...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...Future, by Texas University's famed Professor Hermann Joseph Muller. Five-feet-two with eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics at the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. Some monstrous fruit flies which he grew under x-rays made the first news Texas had from him in three years. Professor Muller's book will probably find small favor in Austin. It discusses the possibility of breeding humans in the laboratory...