Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until Adolf Hitler admitted fortnight ago that Germany has a military air force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Berlin correspondents were afraid to cable stories about the Nazi air bases now being rushed to completion near the Capital, understood that a single reference to them in a dispatch would cause the correspondent to be tried for "espionage and treason...
...famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress of 1,500 'shock-brigade collectivists' from all parts of the U. S. S. R., which has just ended its session in Moscow. . . . [TIME, Feb. 25.] As the recent abolition...
Complete Soviet malnutrition returns for 1933-34, good, bad or indifferent, will scarcely be in before 1937. Last week a Times headline writer slapped above Moscovite Duranty's dispatch the capitals...
...leaves home to make his fortune, returns in manhood to be robbed and murdered by his greedy parents who fail to recognize him. Every few months this item, with setting and characters changed, pops up as gospel fact. Last month the Associated Press carried the story as a news dispatch from Oravisa, Yugoslavia (TIME. Jan. 28). Last week Hearstpapers printed a Universal Service report beginning thus...
...letter "e." Ordinarily that supply is ample for run-of-mill newspaper copy. But since the New Deal, newspaper copy has been anything but ordinary. It deals glibly in millions, billions of Federal appropriations, relief expenditures, debts, tax receipts, budget estimates. A dozen lines of a Washington dispatch may contain close to 100 ciphers...