Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than two years, rumors have been abroad that a big newspaper deal would shortly pop up in Atlanta. Last week that rumor ripened into fact. Dayton Publisher James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio. Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren Gamaliel Harding, stepped from a plane in Atlanta to announce that he had bought two papers: the Atlanta Journal and William Randolph Hearst's Atlanta Georgian. With them he got the Journal's 50,000-watt radio station, WTSB, and a 40% interest in another, less important transmitter, WAGA...
...After George VI was safe home in England, fact was released that he had: spent six nights abroad; gone within range of German guns; been told that, for this war's first time, British ground troops had (under French direction) engaged the enemy...
...many a young player just what Mr. Hardy howled about. Few top-notch tennis amateurs have the time or inclination to get a full-time job nowadays. While the players of the pre-Tilden era were content with a summer junket to swank Eastern tournaments (and a trip abroad if they were very, very good), most of the present top-notch racketeers have to play tennis nine months out of the year, to keep up with the field...
Tabouis's influence is not confined to France: her observations are syndicated abroad, are taken more seriously in England and the U. S. than they are at home. Last year a London Catholic journal, The Tablet, called her "one of the gravest of contemporary international dangers." Said The Tablet: "There is no era of history and no country of the world upon which she is not incompetent to write. . . . There can, indeed, be few other living writers who are as ignorant of anything as Mme Tabouis is of everything...
...statement of repudiation, issued by the Foreign Office press bureau, said that neither the assertions of the mouth place of world Communism nor the interpretations placed upon them abroad represent the Soviet Government's views...