Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morning after last week's Jackson Day Dinner in 2,000 cities (see p. 11), James Aloysius Farley awakened in Washington to discover that the party he bosses had eaten itself out of its $400,000 deficit in a single night. Invigorated by the news, Boss Farley hurried to the Willard Hotel to put some iron into his fellow members of the Democratic National Committee, gathered for the first big war talk of the 1936 campaign. From his opening remarks, it was clear that Boss Farley still had political money on his mind...
...eclipse of the moon threw Ethiopians last week into the brief panic an eclipse always produces in Ethiopia, but they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...operating income of $2,666,000 in addition to $2,391,000 profit on real estate and securities sold during the year. Year before Corn Exchange reported net operating income of $2,564,000. But most interesting meetings of the week were held by two banks that made considerable news during the depth of Depression...
Fired by the news of the Channel Fleet's feat, the North Sea Fleet at the Nore next tried to organize a strike of its own. Captain William Bligh, once of the Bounty, now of the Director, was one of the first officers to be put ashore. More aimless and violent than the Spithead mutiny, this "floating republic" made the mistake of threatening a Government that had just made all the concessions it felt like making. When the Admiralty tried to starve them out by cutting off their supplies, the mutineers retaliated by trying to blockade the Port...