Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Unfair, incorrect is TIME'S assertion on second news page, March 23 issue, that the Battle of New Orleans was won "15 days after the War of 1812 was over." Inference is that Senator Rose McConnell Long was wrong when she told a Senate committee that "Had we not won that battle, we would have been a British colony west of the Mississippi." The fact is ... historians now agree that the Battle of New Orleans was fought before not after, the War of 1812 was over. Said the Treaty of Ghent, signed Dec. 24, 1814: "All hostilities, both...
...Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and William Dever, Dr. Bundesen had a ringside seat at a memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News, got on the Sanitary District's pay roll and four years later had back his old job as Health Board president. By adroit soft-pedaling Dr. Bundesen weathered the scandal surrounding Chicago's amebic dysentery epidemic during the 1933 Century of Progress...
...doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under the Kelly regime in Chicago...
When this amazing news broke, Governor Hoffman vehemently announced that he had known nothing about the Wendel confession. Day before Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel...
...equally earthy glimpse of Austria, March's March of Time, a Silly Symphony, Fox Movistone News, and at 12.45 the Bruch violin Concerto in G Minor, played by Yehudi Menuhin and the London Symphony fill the bill...