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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also last week, Publisher Hearst ordered Hearstpapers to throw out all advertisements and news of Mae West's new cinema Klondike Annie (see p. 44), start an editorial campaign against it. Editorial excerpts: "It is an IMMORAL and INDECENT film. . . . The story, scenes and dialog are basically libidinous and sensual. . . . Decent people will protest against . . . showing a white woman in the role, even inferred, of consort to a Chinese vice lord...
When the Associated Press proposed two years ago to set up a $1,000,000 Wirephoto service for transmitting news pictures over telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME...
Perhaps because there has been no great U. S. picture news in the past year, newsreaders in general have not shown much appreciation of the fact that they were experiencing a journalistic revolution, that news pictures were being served to them almost as hot as the news itself. But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment. That pictures-by-telephone have established themselves to stay was proven last week when...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...show, gave both Austria and Russia the dangerous feeling that each had sacrificed more power and prestige than the other. Author Wolff does not believe that the War was inevitable. If Germany had not let Austria have her head in dealing with Serbia after Serajevo, if news of Serbia's satisfactory reply to Austria's ultimatum had not been suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except...