Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length it was 3 o'clock, the hour at which the Stock Exchange and the tea houses in Mincing Lane close. Only then was Chancellor Chamberlain ready to release the bad news: The huge cost of Britain's rearmament program (some $1,500,000,000 plus) had swallowed up not only the expected treasury surplus but made it necessary to impose additional taxes. The basic income tax rate was being raised threepence in the pound: for every $5 a Briton receives, he must pay $1.18 instead of $1.13 in income tax. His daily cup of tea will...
...more representation than their proportion of population warrants. Since they run the country's business and pay its taxes, the Jews of Palestine feel they should be offered nothing less than virtually the whole show. Businesslike, responsible Jews last week quietly passed the word around that rioting and news of rioting must end. Reason: Tel Aviv's great Levant Fair is due to open this week and rioting is bad for business...
...Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...
...head on his fist, twisting his head back and forth toward each of his guests. A messenger rushed in importantly, pushed an official message under II Duce's nose. II Duce glanced over it with a sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press was the fact that II Duce is a dunker. With fine appetite he absorbed two plates of spaghetti and a helping of roast beef with peas. Into his glass of red wine he dipped crust after crust of coarse bread which he sucked appreciatively...
Other new Catholic bishops lately in the news...