Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real Reasons? Rome's sensational news break of the Maffey Report had the effect of sharpening in London the question of why Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his National Government ever embarked on a policy which is costing millions for "a matter of indifference...
...colt, he returned to the East last summer to run against horses far out of the claiming class. Partly because Top Row's earlier achievements had been so limited, partly because his owner was emphatically outside that circle of socialite owners whose names are supposed to make racing news glamorous, sportswriters paid remarkably little attention to him. Nonetheless, while they were acclaiming Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Discovery the horse of the year, Top Row went quietly about the business of winning races. By September he had won six. He had beaten Discovery once, with a 29-lb. advantage...
Generally speaking, the hordes of men pouring into the wild country were interested in two things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...
...shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager. No sooner had he made a resounding success than he chucked the job, went to Victor Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, told him his idea. The idea: to sail across Europe from the North to the Black...
Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...