Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this naturally worried Germany. The official German view: it all means nothing. But nervousness was evident in the war's most roundabout dispatch: Rome's Lavoro Fascista heard from Milan that "it is reported from Amsterdam that The Netherlands press publishes an item dated Berlin, according to which Field Marshal Göring will go to Rome next Tuesday." Berlin denied the report. Perhaps it was not necessary for Marshal Göring to go to Rome to find out that Italy was playing this war every man for himself...
Maurice Gustave Gamelin, the tight-lipped little Allied Generalissimo, last week held his first War II press reception for U. S. news correspondents. At the Ecole Militaire he received a delegation including five U. S. by-liners about to be taken up to the Maginot Line for the first time. For the first time silent Soldier Gamelin, 67, spoke his piece about the fighting...
...Meantime another freighter, the British Coulmore, became another ship-of-the-week. During heavy weather at night, 500 miles east of Nantucket, she radioed she had been attacked by a submarine, wanted rescuing. To the spot rushed U. S. Coast Guard cutters and destroyers and the U. S. press got excited because Coulmore's message placed her near the zone where the Panama Conference and President Roosevelt had forbidden belligerents to operate...
Biggest Negro newspaper in the world is the weekly Pittsburgh Courier. The Courier last year had 138,299 readers according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its press run now is close to 170,000. Not more than about 10% of its circulation is in Pittsburgh; the rest is scattered over the U. S., ranges as far afield as the West Indies, China, Jerusalem...
...Paris, Walter Merguson speaks fluent French, lives with his mother in a Montmartre house which he owns. Thin, tall, well-mannered, he has seen most of Europe, before the war had visited both the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Last month Newsman Merguson scored a beat on the entire press of the U. S. with a story of the mobilization of French colonial troops. His cable to the Courier revealed that France was raising a black army of 2,000,000 soldiers, 500,000 laborers. Including the Senegalese fighters who were famed for valor...