Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English-speaking correspondent is covering the civil war there: my father occasionally sends dispatches of general interest to the North China Daily News, but reports no "victories" for the Central Government. The Communists have, of course, no press; most of them are probably too illiterate to discover that they have been defeated. Chiang, with a monopoly on the war bulletins, naturally gives himself the best of the fighting. I do not assert that TIME is hoodwinked by his propaganda, but I trust that the editors will accept in good faith this sidelight upon the Far Eastern situation...
Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...
...stay out of the primary (April 14) of his home State. Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which is purely to advise the convention delegation. Conceivably Candidate Knox might win the delegation...
...guarantee Austria against the long-threatened move of Germany to absorb the Vienna regime. In an oration virtually predicting European war at no distant date Benito Mussolini cried, "The wheels of Destiny are running fast!" He made world headlines once more with a new version of the grand old news that Italy's guilds or corporazioni are some day going to be invested with the powers of Italy's political Chamber of Deputies...
...unfamiliar to American audiences. It gives Miss Bergner most competent and sympathetic support, of which, however, she needs very little. The program is shared with "The Seeing Eye," showing how German shepherd dogs are trained to lead the blind; "Mexican Idyl," a Musical Mood in technicolor, and Fox Movietone News. And then, at 12.45 every day this week, there is to be heard the Shostakovitch Symphony No.1, recorded by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski...