Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press, surveying the Thanksgiving Day situation, reported the following score: 22 States for Franklin Roosevelt and Nov. 23; 23 (including all New England) for tradition and the last Thursday in November. Mississippi is undecided ; both Thursdays will be observed in Texas and Colorado...
LONDON(passed by British censor)-A reliable informant told the United Press tonight that the Chinese Government in Chungking recently received a "clear, indication" from a responsible French source that it would be advisable for China to conclude peace with Japan...
Most emphatic undergraduate journal in the East was The Dartmouth, only daily newspaper in the town of Hanover, N. H., and a member of the Associated Press. Wrote Editor Thomas Wardell Braden Jr.: "In the last great war men of our age died:1) for democracy, 2) to crush German Imperialism. These words don't always mean what they say. We need to remember that there are ideals of truth and realism stronger than the fake ideals which are battering at us from Europe...
...days earlier London's press campaign against Perth Control (TIME, Sept. 25) had come to a climax when the Evening Standard printed an editorial in which it accused the Ministry of harboring political jobholders without news experience. Said the Standard: "It is staffed to capacity three or four times over, but stuffed with incapacity. We are not fighting the big Hitler on the Rhine only to set up little Hitlers here...
...Ministry in Parliament, answered for the Government: there were 872 in London, 127 provincial employes. A gusty Whew! swept like a wind through the House, followed by cries of anguish. Of these 999, Sir Edward added, 43 were former newsmen, 48 were Ministry officers chosen because they had press or radio experience. His explanation was greeted with a roar of laughter and jeers...