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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the State Department rushed into action. A wireless was coded and dispatched to the vessel, which was about 800 miles west of Cobh, Ireland. To their surprise a casual message came back from Captain Edgar A. Chelton saying he had no code key; would they mind sending whatever they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Dead Shell | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Last week in the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose up as expected (TIME, Oct. 9) to announce the downfall of Britain's month-old Ministry of Information. After bitter onslaughts in press and Parliament, Mr. Chamberlain intimated that the Ministry's unwieldy staff had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 999 to 849 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

For these firings, President Conant was taken to task by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Teachers Union. When Professor Harold Hitchings Burbank, head of the economics department, quit the University, the campus believed he did so as a protest, although he denied it. Last week there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Save Harvard | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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