Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unpredictable Lord Rothermere, who took the stand this week, used to be known as "The Mystery Man of Fleet Street" in the years when he was a super-silent business manager and steadying influence on his late elder brother Lord Northcliffe, most brilliant and potent press tycoon the Empire has ever had. In recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle...
...assistant: "It is carelessly gambling with a recovery hard-won to send a patient home without making real effort to stabilize the environment to which he must return or to exercise as many safeguarding precautions in planning his immediate course of action as are reasonably possible." Some doctors even press social responsibilities upon their patients in between injections, encourage them to work and play with other patients...
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More rigorous than in Great Britain itself, Canadian censorship was comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense of Canada" or prosecution of the war. Even weather reports were no longer published...
...what irked correspondents most was not censorship: it was the dark fog of secrecy in which the Government carried on its war. When war began, Canada set up a Bureau of Information to handle official news, then suddenly abandoned it, let each Government department appoint its own press officers. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who had never liked press conferences anyhow (he once complained: "My every word is seized upon!"), promptly abolished them...