Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where the War makes news in such general fields as music, science, education, it will be reported in TIME'S general departments. For example, this week for war songs see p. 68, for the evolution of poison gases see p. 51, for an account of the evacuation of London school children...
...cold and haughty as only a really shy person can be. Since 1930 he held no single press conference until the pressure of the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth forced him to undergo what he looked on as a most excruciating ordeal. Newshawks found no news at the British Embassy, were invariably frozen swiftly over the telephone. Last week the chill...
...TIME, May 1, et seq.), a U. S. grand jury in Chicago last week took a new way to charge him and associates with an old crime. By coding, printing and transmitting horse-race entries, odds, results to bookies, said the jurors, an Annenberg printing house and his Nationwide News Service conducted a lottery by interstate wire and the U. S. mails...
...First news was that the British Royal Navy, already at battle stations, controlled the Mediterranean at both ends and had blockaded Germany completely from the North Sea to the Skagerrak. This action, now that Germany had access to Russia's food and raw materials, meant less than it did in World War I unless the British were prepared for the desperate adventure of forcing and commanding the Baltic...
Never were three news items more heartily welcomed by the Italian people. In Rome's streets and cafés there were handshaking, backslapping, happy chortling until B. Mussolini's police impressed upon his people that such joy was unseemly in a nation which was supposed to be learning how to love war and think it beautiful (TIME...