Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sloat Fassett (onetime Congressman and Republican leader of New York's Senate) was a backer of Promoter Hunt -this deal seemed fair enough. It looked timely to most of Oriental Consolidated's 829 stockholders (350 English, 224 American, 149 French, 106 scattered). On the London Stock Exchange news of the negotiations jumped the price of shares from 12½ shillings ($2.87) to 35 shillings ($8.05) in three weeks. Accustomed to an average dollar annual dividend on their 429,300 shares, stockholders will now have to trust that Yokohama Specie Bank will repay their capital in the next four...
...Moscow and Rome "responsibility censorship" continued; i. e., correspondents knew that if they sent news that was dangerous or too antagonistic they would be expelled. Chances were that it would become increasingly difficult to report developments impartially...
...London, the day war began, censors walked into the Communications Office and took possession. Telephone service beyond the British Isles was suspended. Since formerly news from Europe to the U. S. cleared through London, this meant the imposition of British censorship over nearly all war news. As the censorship began to delay dispatches, the Associated Press and United Press ordered their correspondents on the Continent to file their stories directly to New York, but even then they were hours late. By the fourth day of the war virtually nothing was known of its military progress, and it looked...
...press accepted the fact it was a censors' war. Atrocity stories began to appear. The New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer installed front-page boxes warning readers that most war news was propaganda...
...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...