Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis' dinner was ruined by baldish Morris Watson, vice president of C. I. O.'s American Newspaper Guild. He introduced, and the convention passed, a resolution denouncing "the press generally, and certain newspapers especially," for their coverage of the convention. This put the blame not on the publishers but on the reporters present˜some of them Mr. Watson's own union constituents. It accused them of trying to reate dissension in C. I. O. by reporting its own unmistakable dissensions at the Convention...
...Associated Press sent a correspondent southward from Peiping on June 11 to plunge into guerrillaland and get the story. His dispatches are now reaching the U. S. by mail. For the present, AP dares not divulge his identity...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
Neville Chamberlain chose she could give Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's My Day a brisk run for its lineage. The wife of the Prime Minister observed early this month as she opened the London Sunday Times National Book Fair: ''I understand from the press that my chief occupation" is darning the Prime Minister's socks...
...also understand from certain sections of the press that my literary tastes are confined to cookery books and archeology...