Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years to a theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across the Ohio River in Kentucky, he was brutally beaten by sheeted men who said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium...
Italy. To this challenge Benito Mussolini replied by having the Italian Press omit all portions of the speech fitting his Dictatorship, but Pope Pius XI, accustomed to having his slippered foot kissed by dignitaries, supplied the full text to Italians by displaying it verbatim in the Papal news-organ, Osservatore Romano. The official Italian news agency dispatch from Washington, printed by most Italian news-organs, unemotionally recorded: "Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that the world's desire for peace is blocked by only 10 or 15% of the total population of the world and did not hide his pessimism over...
Meanwhile Soviet news organs also slued completely around to inform Moscovites that persons who oppose Christmas trees are no longer the virtuous Old Bolsheviks and the stern Heroes of the Revolution they were fortnight ago, but are now despicable "Leftwing oppositionists...
...London Daily Mirror, Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," printed an editorial entitled "Leave Them Alone." Simultaneously he covered his front page with Lindbergh news supplied by his watchful reporters...
...fourth day, British newshawks had sullenly abandoned their siege and Lindbergh news in the British Press had dwindled to a trickle. Only U. S. correspondents were still prowling about when Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh bundled Jon out the hotel servants' entrance and into a waiting limousine, sped off with Mrs. Lindbergh's brother-in-law. Aubrey Neil Morgan, toward the home of his father near Cardiff, Wales. A few newshawks gave chase in a taxicab, soon lost the trail. Speeding to Cardiff by train, they found all entrances to the Morgan estate guarded, all servants pledged to silence...