Word: newssheet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German press, which has been carrying on a vitriolic campaign against Czechoslovakia to aid the Sudeten Germans, splashed the Cheb slayings in blood-red headlines. BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO GERMANS BY CZECHS, screamed Der Angriff, newssheet of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels PRAGUE'S APPALLING BLOOD GUILT...
...sidedness of a partnership with Government was last week amply forecast. In adjoining columns of many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were...
...roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk. But in spite of his pains, in spite of instrumentation gaudy as the newssheet he was depicting, in many a critical opinion Grofé came in second at Paul Whiteman's concert...
...eyes) grows up. She marries the hatchetman but falls in love with a worthless Oriental who takes her to China and sells her into slavery. Robinson with his axe retrieves her. The narrative, sensational and gory, unlikely and over deliberate, resembles a Sunday feature story in a cheap newssheet. Typical shot: an old Tongster (Dudley Digges) registering Chinese imperturbability by blinking when Robinson asks him a question...