Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paupers, insane, etc. According to reports emanating from a British source, Japan is now seeking oil in Persia. This statement was founded upon the fact that Japanese commercial agents are there for the first time in the past 50 years. Said the diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, London journal: "It may be that the 'difficulties which have arisen over the North Persian oil concessions, originally promised to the Sinclair syndicate, will eventually prove to Japan's advantage." The Peruvian Consul at Kobe was attacked by a would-be assassin, who mistook him for an American. The assailant...
...republican government, was 758,742 republican votes and 352,322 for the monarchy. ¶ The Royalists charged that many of their voters had been coerced by Republicans, and this charge was not denied. A Royalist agitation for new elections began but had small hope of success. ¶ The Royalist journal Politia acknowledged that "we are beaten, and we think that for reasons of supreme national necessity we must henceforth recognize the new regime and seek every possible means to obtain political victory at the coming parliamentary elections." ¶ Discussion of the Constitution has been forbidden for five years in order...
...those Bolshies read it everywhere. "It" is Tarzan. Six books* of Tarzan adventures, in cheap paper editions costing 60?, have been printed to the number of 250,000. "Yet," said a Moscow publisher, "the supply is far inferior to the demand. We could easily sell a million." A Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London...
Asahi, Tokyo journal: "The land of Christianity, humanity and liberty has disappeared...
...progress has increased in speed to such an extent, and operating costs have risen so high, that the resources which were formerly sufficient for two newspapers are now barely enough for one. And with this change in material affairs has gone an alteration of character, which makes the daily journal less opinionated and biassed, and more impersonally informative. The editor has become more an executive, and less a "Keeper of the Soul of America...