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...Manhattan the Communist Daily Worker synchronized with Nazi propaganda that "the servile labor leaders and the fawning press" of Great Britain last week supported "the destruction of democratic rights." In an exclusive dispatch from London, the Dally Worker quoted Communist Gallacher: "We shall carry...
...going. When German troops crossed the River Somme, 70 miles from Paris, an official press release placed them on Belgium's River Sambre, 80 miles farther away. Wythe Williams, Paris correspondent for the New York Times (now a commentator for Mutual Broadcasting System in Manhattan) slipped a dispatch past the censor hinting that they were nearer, but his editors at home missed the point. Not until the Battle of the Marne was fought and won (on Sept. 9) did readers in the U. S. realize that the German Army had come within 30 miles of Paris...
...what human rapacity has done and is still doing to whales. Though he is officially Curator of Oceanic Birds at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Murphy is an expert on whales & whaling. He fumes with invectives like "unalleviated carnage" and "butchered and rendered with horrible dispatch...
...Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund Duffy, New York World Telegram Reporter S. Burton Heath, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial-writer Bart Howard...
Some diplomatic sources suggested that the dispatch of British and French battle fleets to the Eastern Mediterranean last week was connected with the request sent to Mussolini...