Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President invoked them. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood, as ebullient and confident as in the crisis days of 1933. Behind him sat pale, libertarian Frank Murphy. Mr. Roosevelt announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, nothing but calm. He said this again, and again. "For the proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual...
...Gaston is an ex-newspaperman who lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence as Treasury No. 3 man (No. 2: Under Secretary John Hanes...
Italy. Most strategic neutral, Italy was profoundly impressed by Germany's advance ; as the Army reached Warsaw, jeers at Britain filled the Italian press. Although Germany announced that after the Polish victory the Führer would return to Berchtesgaden to have a chat with Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, although the German radio ridiculed attempts to "lure away the Italians from their Teutonic allies," Mussolini...
...Washington, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said for the record : 1) that in war the press is a seasoned veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it turned out to be a bad one, the Government disposition would be to "teach it some manners." Under the Federal Communications Act the President could, in any national emergency or merely to safeguard U. S. neutrality, shut down any or all radio stations. Already the President had proclaimed U. S. neutrality...
...never bleeds, yet from Warsaw NBC had broadcast into U. S. parlors bashed brains, hacked-off hands, slaughtered children. Commentators, necessarily, were far from neutral. The European news reports broadcast were censored at the source, and amounted to little more than propaganda (even though the press printed no less censored news). In addition to all this, the cost had been terrific-as much as $18 a minute for transatlantic connections, countless refunds to advertisers whose programs had been interrupted...