Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith and his faithful wife, Thelma, were bundled into a big black police car for an exciting ride to Baton Rouge. Another car in front and one behind were filled with deputies. Two motorcycle policemen led the way, a squadron of press cars followed. The motorcade raced through traffic at 60 m.p.h. with all sirens wide open...
Campaign. With this in mind, the British press plugged hard last week for Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, demanding the "best talent available" for a newly constructed Cabinet, wrote: "The plain fact is that when people speak of a reconstruction of the Cabinet, they are thinking first and foremost of the inclusion of Churchill, and it is quite certain that no step would more profoundly impress the Axis powers with the conviction that this country means business...
...planes. How much of all this was fact or fiction no one knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, who works out of Tokyo, after a long, difficult trip, managed to reach the remote Mongolian frontier and began to make the war make sense...
When Hitler took Austria, more than a year ago, Cardinal Innitzer heiled and voted Ja with the best of them. He was, indeed, credited with helping end the Schuschnigg regime, by letting the Austrian Catholic press back Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi go-between. Many Catholic observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism. Praising the Cardinal's attempts at conciliation, the Commonweal said last week of his experience at Konigsbrunn: "It is one of the few classic tragedies in our melodramatic...
...less gentle than his treatment of the Rightist press has been Serrano Suñer's way of dealing with those journalists who supported the Republic. Last month all Spanish newspapermen got orders to present to the Government copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico...