Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people, some editors elaborately explained that after all Fascism was a proletarian doctrine, so why shouldn't it march with Russia? The newspaper of Party Secretary General Achille ("the Panther Man") Starace called the deal "pure Machiavellianism" (much admired by Fascists) and hinted that Italy had thought...
...judges agreed that Ambers had won. Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement. But some of the other spectators were not so pleased with the decision. Some thought Armstrong was robbed of victory by the referee who took away five rounds for low blows which looked like unavoidable and harmless borderline punches. Others thought Armstrong had thrown the fight (fouling Ambers deliberately). Big, bombastic Eddie Mead, Armstrong's manager, brayed that his boy was "jobbed," accused...
...most other news off the front pages. The supposed suicide of Bolivia's Strongman German Busch and the death of Sidney Howard (see p. 39) got brief treatment the day after Russia and Germany signed their Non-Aggression Pact. But there were exceptions. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger thought the second indictment of Moe Annenberg* was equally big news that day and gave a four-column headline to it. And throughout the week the New York Herald Tribune consistently played down the bad news, played up every item that spelled possible peace...
...forget its last war lesson in "false friendship, broken faith, entrapment, disparagement and repudiation. " So were the Philadelphia Record the Detroit News ("It's the same old war! We got crossed up on it once. Once is enough."), and most of the Western papers. The Washington Star thought the U. S. "should support the French and the British to the extent envisioned in President Roosevelt's original proposal for neutrality legislation." The New York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front...
...cheaply bought stories by big-name authors and flashy risque color cartoons, made it the greatest smoking-room magazine of all time. Circulation zoomed until it hit 625,000 in December 1937, and that issue carried 155 pages of advertising. Dave Smart and his co-publisher, William Hobart Weintraub, thought they could not miss...