Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor, a wide smile crinkling his plain, friendly face. "Top o' the mornin' to you all." Slouched back in his chair, brown eyes half-closed behind his octagonal rimless spectacles, the Governor talked about the weather, a fishing trip he planned to take, the lack of news. "You know, boys," drawled he, "I didn't sleep well last night, worryin' about you-all and how there's not much news...
...first wife, who is a junior at Kansas University. As usual, Nurse McCue ate with the family. After dinner the Governor retired to his study, spent several hours working over the answers he was going to give Radio Interviewer Kaltenborn. No visitors, no long-distance telephone calls, no radio news flashes had come in when he went to bed at 11:15. In California they had only begun to count the primary votes cast that day which might, more than a month in advance of the Cleveland Convention, make it virtually certain that Alf M. Landon would be the next...
Fall of Harar. All the excitement was not limited to Addis Ababa last week, Doggedly Italy's southern army under General Graziani plowed ahead toward Harar, Jijiga and Diredawa, key cities of the southeast. Only nature opposed them. At Harar, second city of the defunct empire, news that its defender, Ras Nassibu, had also fled the country caused another outbreak of rioting and looting almost as severe as that which shook Addis Ababa. Soon the Italians marched in, put down disorder with a heavy hand...
Even Mr. Churchill's longtime adversary Ramsay MacDonald joined the chorus. In his own paper, the News Letter, he wrote...
What Chairman William Averell Harriman had to say to his stockholders, however, was bigger news. In his report he outlined a series of new U. P. services that mark one of the few smart steps any railroad has yet taken toward regaining lost passenger traffic. Able son of an able father, William Averell Harriman has been familiar with his heritage since he worked in U. P.'s Omaha shops during vacations from Yale. Long a director, he was made board chairman in 1932. One of the first things new Chairman Harriman realized was that railroads are susceptible to smart...