Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This entered world news as proposed Deal No. 2. In it His Majesty asked to be ceded a corridor to the sea either at British Zeila or Italian Assab. This he would have been granted under Deal...
Public Relations Counsel Josef Israels 2nd, who will soon set up in Manhattan a high-powered bureau of Ethiopian information, predicts that the world's news services, which he estimates to have spent over $1,000,000 in Ethiopia, will soon withdraw most of their correspondents, since the nature of the Empire makes it impossible to achieve news coverage. Mr. Israels said that the Emperor at parting told him: "Remember always that our greatest weapon against Italy is world public opinion...
This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...Canterbury have come to rouse William IV's niece out of bed, tell her of her uncle's death and her succession to the Throne of England. Suddenly Actress Hayes appears, long locks falling to her shoulders, a night dress sweeping the floor. She receives the news without a word, but by some alchemy of gesture and expression, manages to convey in full the young queen's terrific bewilderment, anxiety and delight. Those who saw Miss Hayes a good 16 years ago as the extraordinary dream-child in Dear Brutus could almost hear the echo...