Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Japan, censorship in the U.S.S.R. is a very real factor. The approved method of gathering news, Hindmarsh said, is for a foreign correspondent to take a brief "rumor story" relayed to him from his home office, expand it into a long "dispatch," and take it down to the censor. If he approves it, the correspondent throws it away. If he disapproves, the correspondent knows the rumor is true. If he merely mumbles, the reporter has to guess...
Today's Hour includes a Grantland Rice Sport-light, a Disney cartoon, a Pete Smith specialty, a short starring Charlie McCarthy, and two news-reels--Paramount and M.G.M.--edited to avoid overlapping. These will run for the rest of the week and similar programs will be shown every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and will be extended to the whole week if they prove successful...
Concurrent with the news that the Committee for Electoral Reorm has swung into active petition work among the Senior Class, in favor of an election convention, came the news last night that Francis Keppel '38, president of the Student Council, will call a meeting of the Council for Thursday night to consider the Committee's aims...
...spite of war talk and a crisis in the British Cabinet, prices in stock-markets throughout the world rose hopefully last week. Commodities and bonds were also bullish. Even in Paris,where the news was supposed to be blackest, the Bourse displayed substantial advances in all classes of security...
Last week the following were news...