Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of 1836 was the revolt of Texas against Mexico. Tale of the Alamo made tragic news in the U. S. in early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...
Written by Hungarian Composer Reszo Seress three years ago, Gloomy Sunday droned along in comparative obscurity until last month. Then it began to make news aplenty. Budapest police, investigating the suicide of a shoemaker named Joseph Keller, found that Keller had left a note in which he quoted lyrics from Composer Seress' poignant Szomorú Vasárnap. Further inquiry revealed that the lugubrious ballad had persuaded 17 other impressionable Magyars to take their lives. Two shot their brains out while hearing a gypsy band play the piece, others killed themselves listening to recorded versions, several leaped into...
What Father Yvon wants most, he told French audiences last week in his rough-&-ready sailor's voice, is up-to-date radio equipment whereby he can pick up and rebroadcast to the whole fleet news, storm warnings, musical entertainment...
Adopted. By James John ("Jimmy") Walker, 55, onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York City; and Betty Compton Walker, 29, onetime musicomedienne; the two-month-old daughter of a 15-year-old unwed mother; from "The Cradle," famed Evanston, Ill. orphanage (TIME, May 20). Name: Mary Patricia Walker. Premature news of the adoption caused the Walkers to announce they had given up the adoption plan, return to Manhattan. Four days later they quietly went back to Evanston to take Mary Patricia away...
During the worst of the Hitler war-fright the market looked as if it might take a bad tumble. Yet by last week it had regained composure, and prices were nearly back to the highs of the previous fortnight. To the first flood news last week the market was impervious, though later when it was realized that first-half earnings would have to be revised downward for the industrials, utilities and railroads affected, quotations began to soften. What the stockmarket will do next is anybody's guess. But what U. S. business will do for the next few months...