Word: code
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisis progressed, WMCA got a big hand from Manhattan columnists. One reported: "Several weeks ago the station hired an expert of naval code who stationed himself near the shortwave receiver of a local morning newspaper. As secret orders from shore to ship were flashed from England and Germany he quickly decoded them and rushed his findings to the microphone...
WMCA's frightened answer gave its show away. It had employed no code expert or anybody else to eavesdrop on admiralty communications; it bought all its ruff from the International News Service, from the Mirror, from the Herald Tribune; all it knew was what the papers said. As far as the trade press ads went, they had just seemed like a good idea at the time...
Meanwhile, with the fear of government in their hearts, radio networks, after a week of fiddling, put a code of self-censorship of war news in writing, had it blessed by the National Association of Broadcasters and FCC's Chairman Fly. Main provisions...
...France even weather reports were suppressed, lest they give enemy airmen valuable information. Classified advertising and crossword puzzles were barred from French newspapers to keep spies from printing messages in code. The French press contained little except official bulletins, stirring appeals, atrocity stories and reports from the front that were obviously cooked...
...Johnson and Dorothy Thompson. In her broadcast of last Friday night, Miss Thompson sounded as if she were itching to get her fingers in Hitler's hair. When Commentator Thompson was just getting warmed up, the first important application of U. S. radio's self-imposed censorship code occurred. St. Louis' KWK cut Miss Thompson off the air. Said KWK's president, Robert Convey, as though he might have to give Hitler time to answer her: "It was our belief that Miss Thompson was expressing some personal opinions, and it does not seem . . . in view...