Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mrs. Lindbergh returned last month to the U. S. on the Champlain, during the voyage an International News photographer aboard, unobserved, took pictures of Jon and Land Lindbergh (born in England). He took to his office a series of shots worth $5,000 to any big U. S. newspaper. Because the Hearst press had been most criticized for its part in harrying Lindbergh out of the country, the pictures were suppressed. Clients were told they would be released only if Lindbergh okayed them for publication...
Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein is no charmer. In London, where he has lived for 34 years, U. S.-born Epstein's elemental stonecutting has regularly shocked the prissy, amused the laity, enraged the pretty and made news for the press. Last week it all happened again when his latest work, a three-ton figure in pink alabaster entitled Adam, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. In general mass and demeanor Adam resembled an unusually upright gorilla with his fists at his chest and his face lifted manlike toward the stars. The conception was obvious and the execution direct...
...told news photographers at Columbia's commencement exercises to keep 85 feet away from him. (Photographers covering the King and Queen's tour were allowed to come 65 feet nearer royalty...
...Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping on the right side of the State Department...