Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced little clubfoot who bosses the German press, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, once remarked that two newspapers are enough for Germany-Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns...
...Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported in the press, a view which Dr. Pearl himself failed to share (TIME, Jan. 23). Longevity and population are only two of Raymond Pearl's major interests. Others are nutrition, death, eugenics, diseases of poultry...
...Oxford University Press...
...perfect flowering of the giddy '20s, he arrived from Nevada with a small fortune from promoting mining stocks, hired a press agent and proceeded to splurge. He gave banquets for bigwigs, planned a $50,000,000 corporation with Charles Lindbergh as president to control the nation's airways,* had a nasty squabble with Claude Neon (lights) over patents, ended a spectacular sally into prizefight promotion by himself trying to knock out Gene Tunney. He also turned a pretty penny floating and promoting mine stocks, climax of which was the forming in 1928 of an investment trust, Metal & Mining...
...Danish religious press was undecided whether Author Tandrup was being satirical or only devoutly whimsical. U. S. readers will recognize the tone: that of Green Pastures. Essentially the tale is serious enough; its symbolism includes politics as well as religion. As for the humor of Jonah's situations, the original author appears to have been something of a humorist himself...