Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with amusement your statement under Radio (TIME, May 22) that the news broadcasts of the B.B.C. are "straight and accurate." Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, as the B.B.C. is as Red as they make 'em, and its distorted, lying and slanderous statements are equalled only by the foreign-language broadcasts from Moscow and the nightly French, anti-Fascist "news" bulletins in Italian from Nice...
...After such a boner TIME'S Foreign News Editor does not deserve it, but next time he goes to Europe let him travel on the Empress of Britain and be informed...
...materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used to buy goods that Britain has imported and is willing to reexport. The bill is expected to pass Parliament this week. The British did not try to disguise the projected loans as anything but political. The Nazi official news agency called it a "coldblooded attempt to buy European cannon for the benefit of the British armament industry...
...briefly after the World War in a red-&-yellow whirl under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, later editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late New York Graphic. The Courant readers (44.000 daily, 67,000 Sunday) get for their 4? no big headlines but plenty of features, local titbits, hobby news. Today the Old Lady is reaping the reward of her most impressive campaign, a consistent fight on Prohibition. Hard pressed by Frank Gannett's Evening Times, which refuses liquor advertising, the Courant enjoys about $50,000 worth a year...
Chief buyers were not individual big names but a small, mysterious cartel of French and Dutch art dealers who were suspected of acting for interests in the U. S. Highest price paid (by Editor Alfred M. Frankfurter of the U. S. Art News) was $39,400 for the famous van Gogh Self Portrait which used to hang in the State Gallery at Munich. Manhattan Dealer Pierre Matisse paid $945 for his famed father's Three Women, from the Folk Museum at Essen. Principal acquisitions of the Franco-Dutch cartel were Picasso's Soler Family (1903), from Koln...