Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worry of all broadcasters is how to make strategists, commentators, etc. earn their keep. One way (already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling...
While U. S. correspondents in Europe's capitals were wondering how to get news back to their papers (see col. 3), at home their editors were pondering how to play what news they got. Two conflicting impulses made the U. S. press sound like a man arguing with himself. One was a voice of passion urging him to show his indignation over Führer Hitler's aggression. The other was a voice of reason counseling detachment to keep...
...editorials the Daily News was saying: "We must keep as cool as we can unless we want to get into this war." As usual, most intemperate of all the Press's many voices were the cartoonists, who emitted characteristically simplified cries of horror, scorn and indignation...
...Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German officers claimed there were 800 others who had met the same death...
...press was unanimous in its editorial endorsement of the President's address to the nation (TIME, Sept. 11) on neutrality. But there was considerable uncertainty about what neutrality was. Wrote the Atlanta Journal: "Adolf Hitler has brought Europe to this disaster. But we can also see that America now can best serve her own interests ... by keeping...