Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could...
August 21. At midnight the German press suddenly announced that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop would go to Moscow to negotiate an anti-aggression pact with the Soviet Union...
...from the main European capitals direct to U. S. listeners by radio telephone or short-wave pickups. Busy interpreters sat day and night before "monitor" receivers, eavesdropping on foreign radio stations. By round-the-clock diligence of this sort, and with a ceaseless supply of news bulletins from the press associations ticking in to the studios, radio, with no presses to turn, was consistently first to the listening U. S. with every jot of news worth reporting (and much that was not). It even earned that highest honor of the news craft-by-lines in the press itself for radio...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...
...months since they took Shanghai from the Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper the Japanese have been unable to muzzle is Ta Mei Wan Pao (meaning Great American Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China...