Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...
...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
...Berlin's children there was no evacuation. Schools were closed but children began each day with gas mask drill, prepared, if and when air raids came, to scurry to bomb shelters...
That morning, dangling his withered left hand on a shiny sabre-hilt, Wilhelm II was considering an ultimatum to Russia (sent the following day): cease mobilization in twelve hours or Germany will fight. Stock exchanges in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, St. Petersburg were already closed in panic. But the London Exchange had had business as usual that Thursday. Many a U. S. businessman waved away Wilhelm's ultimatum as "pure bluff." At 23 Wall Street Mr. Morgan & friends emerged from meeting after three hours, confident there would be no World War. They announced the New York Exchange would remain open...