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Cheers for Hitler. With Verwoerd at the helm, Die Transvaler was less of a newspaper than a political broadsheet...
...Communist Party canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero, belatedly conferring with Tito on means to "liberalize" the regime and expected back from Belgrade that day, wanted no political demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings in every college. At the Polytechnic a printing press was seized, a broadsheet printed. Budapest came out to see the student fun. Said an old woman: "We have been silent for eleven years. Today nothing will stop us." There was no hint of the violence to come...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...