Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers printed all the war news they could get. In the East it crowded most other news off the front pages. The supposed suicide of Bolivia's Strongman German Busch and the death of Sidney Howard (see p. 39) got brief treatment the day after Russia and Germany signed their Non-Aggression Pact. But there were exceptions. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger thought the second indictment of Moe Annenberg* was equally big news that day and gave a four-column headline to it. And throughout the week the New York Herald Tribune consistently played down the bad news, played...
...Times and the Daily News matched each other in excitement and general pessimism. Two days before the Russo-German trade treaty was announced, the Time's Herbert L. Matthews and Frederick T. Birchall cabled from Rome and London that war seemed almost certain. Both papers printed the story of the German submarine heading for Martinique, and the News went completely haywire by suggesting that the President send a couple of battleships to blow it out of the water. Next day the News apologized to its readers for getting too excited...
Scoops were few. The U. P. got a beat on the first German soldier killed in Poland. H. R. Knickerbocker of I. N. S. cabled an exclusive on Hitler's statement that he would rather fight now than later. Headlines were big and bold, but not as big and bold as they could be. The Times used a 36-point, eight-column spread three times during the week, saved its 60-point for worse news. Outside of New York few papers increased the size of their headlines. Headline-of-the-week was the Daily News...
Cartoonists showed more humor than their editorial colleagues. Most of them jeered at the Russo-German rapprochement, refused to get excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks...
...Evening Post, was really one Shmelka Ginsberg (TIME, May 22). In April General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up with Hitler, and the New Masses took a lot of trouble to discredit him. Last week, while the Communist press was stammering explanations of the Russo-German treaty (see above), the Post bought nearly a full page in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago papers to boast that it had predicted just that. "THIS NEWS DIDN'T SURPRISE POST READERS," crowed the Post...