Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's merry dinner came to an equally abrupt end with a real news flash from Washington. He knew that Secretary of the Navy Swanson had been critically ill with pleurisy all week. But the news was that the President's cousin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, had suddenly succumbed to a heart attack during an attack of intestinal influenza. Cutting his Harvard evening short, the President and his three sons drove to the Presidential special, did some hurried telegraphing. In an hour he had word that his cousin's funeral would be held...
...maneuvers had to be suspended by the Air Ministry after two machines crashed with six deaths. The ominous explanation: "foreign sabotage." This, coming so soon after three cases of "sabotage" in the Royal Navy (TIME, Feb. 24), enhanced the anxiety of the House. Its nervousness was further upped by news that a highly important and secret Foreign Office report had vanished from British hands and had been embarrassingly divulged to the world in Rome last week...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...public prints with characteristic acumen seized upon this case as juicy and slightly smelly news. Political nerves in general are so jumpy these days that any chance to sling a little mud is snapped up avidly. Consequently only by reading General Craig's memorandum is it possible to realize why Hagood should be punished, regardless of any political significance his case may have...
...program is almost entirely manly, outdoor stuff. Second on the bill is "Fish from Hell", the log of a fishing expedition off the west coast of Mexico, featuring such gory delights as the death struggle between a whale and a sword fish. A Silly Symphony and Fox Movie tone News fill in the gaps...