Word: news
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
...newsboy. He may sell Communist papers, it ruled, if he "acts as the result of the active threat of the unions . .. However," the Vatican added, "he must always have the moral obligation to limit as much as possible his cooperation ... by using small ruses in which the news vendors are experts and which it is not necessary to list here...
...rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against the Herald. Unperturbed, Publisher Lee said: "We'll keep on printing the news when, where and how it occurs...
...summer day in 1539 a young friar named Marcos eased himself into a barber's chair in Mexico City, unburdened himself of the biggest piece of news his barber had heard all summer. As almost everybody in Mexico City knew, Fray Marcos de Niza had just returned from a four-month trip into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy...
Before the summer was out, Fray Marcos' barber had peddled the news as far east as Cuba. The viceroy at Mexico City was quick to act. He decided to send an expedition up the Pacific coast to take possession of Cibola and its neighboring kingdoms. To head the expedition the viceroy chose 30-year-old Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, who helped finance it with a million dollars of his wife's fortune...