Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers remain, for the moment, crossed, though later his Daily Express goes cautiously pro-King & Mrs. Simpson...
...Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently for the London Times to "thunder" at the King next morning (still without naming Mrs. Simpson) and for the London News Chronicle, largely owned by the Cadbury's chocolate family, to be the first paper in the Kingdom to name the King's intended wife...
...intolerance of the Spaniards embroiled in the fratricidal strife has become so intense that an impartial foreigner cannot be friendly with two Spaniards whose political beliefs are even slightly in conflict. There is no freedom whatever allowed journalistic investigation and the strictest censorship imaginable is imposed on all news dispatches sent out from Madrid...
...morning paper in Vancouver seemed an economic impossibility. After the General had gone, a group of his ex-employes went into a huddle, decided to carry on anyhow with a cooperative paper. Forty strong they combed Vancouver for funds, credit, advertising, circulation. Resulting enterprise was christened the News-Herald. It started life with 10,000 sympathetic but skeptical readers who thought the paper could not last but wanted to help its newsmen stay off Vancouver's breadlines as long as possible...
Last week, the founder-stockholders scanned their annual financial report with satisfaction. That the breadline had become remote as Mars was evident when they observed that their News-Herald started with a $5,000 shoestring, now had 103 employes earning a $125,000 annual payroll, 250 carriers earning $3,000 a month, an annual business turnover of $250,000, a circulation of almost 20,000, largest of any Canadian morning paper west of Toronto...