Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Maguire was just the man for such a dispute. A native of Ireland, a onetime student at Oxford, he went to the U. S. as a newspaperman to report a big Labor trial, became a Roman Catholic soon afterward. Seldom does he figure in the news, but midwestern Labor and employers account him their best and most active mediator. He helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face...
...scare the living daylights out of Lepke. He figured he would get a lighter rap from the Federals than from zealous Mr. Dewey. Last week Lepke walked into the Federal Building accompanied by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover. As soon as news of his capture leaked out, New York City's officials...
Winchell telephoned his good friend John Hoover (for whom he withheld the news of Hauptmann's capture for 24 hours) and G-Man Hoover guaranteed Lepke asylum in a Federal jail. Then for two weeks Winchell was treated to a run-around by Lepke and his men. Finally, one day last week, he was called to the phone again. "If Lepke doesn't surrender by 4 p. m. tomorrow," barked Winchell, "Hoover says no consideration of any kind will ever be given...
London and Paris. From the democratic countries, correspondents could not report news as electrifying as the Führer's bombshell. There were no bold moves, flaming pronouncements, or grandiose imaginative surprises aimed at unnerving their potential enemy. Stories were of a first deep shock, a quick recovery, then of wheels turning, of preparations, meetings, mobilizations. Unlike the period before Munich, when the fleet was mobilized before the Army, when British and French diplomats seemed to work at cross purposes, no hitches or jerks showed in British-French preparations. Parliament assembled smoothly and gravely. War powers went...
Russia's papers and magazines have lately been so jampacked with accounts of shortages, mismanagement, blundering, that exiles reading it from afar wondered if violent anti-Communists had got control of the controlled press. As last week's news of the German-Russian Pact left the world gasping, urgency of the reports suddenly became understandable. As correspondents speculated on where, when & how Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler got together, the Russian picture of Russia's condition suggested that more than high politics egged Stalin on. Not theories, which could be changed, or political opponents, who could...