Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ziff-Davis group of magazines for mail-order scientists (Popular Aviation, Popular Photography, etc.). Managing Editor of Radio News is Karl Kopetzky, who prides himself on having learned journalism from Walter Winchell. During the early war days, Editor Kopetzky listened to Murrow in London, Grandin in Paris, Jordan in Berlin, etc., was struck with the costly time devoted by U. S. broadcasters to innocent prattle about London weather, etc. With the unfailing suspicion of a Winchell-bred newshawk, he dispatched an undercover man to get the inside story...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...
...Some 50,000 fully trained young Jews were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border. They have courted Arab favor (over Italian-German incitement) with some success, rely on Turkey and her army of 1,500,000 to keep the Arabs in line and help hold the Suez as well as the Dardanelles. Last week the specially friendly, oil-rich Kingdom of Iraq bought...
...takes the reader to Manchukuo, makes a brief stopover in Siberia, moves on to China and then, going south and east by way of the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, rounds the Malay Peninsula for a look at Siam, India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan and finally Palestine...
...Gunther was most fascinated by the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, an "incredible combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall and your father"; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, an "Indian who became a westerner; an aristocrat who became a socialist; an individualist who became a great mass leader"; Emir Abdullah, of Trans-Jordan, who for laughs keeps a big concave-convex mirror in the entrance hall of his palace in Amman...