Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest your spirit be bruised by articulate flat-footed imperialists, let me say that TIME'S objective coverage of the Royal Visit was TIMEly. The Canadian press, usually independent, fell flat on its face in the wave of hysteria which trailed the visit from coast to coast. "She smiled" and the press took over the role of angels...
...about it. Newscasters kept for U. S. tuners a here-they-come, there-they-go vigil from the moment the Royal train rolled across the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls last week until Their Majesties left Hyde Park Sunday night for Canada. Radio strove as vigorously as the press for news angles and side slants, but broadcasters generally watched their step more carefully, trod on no regal corns. This was largely due to the fact that many of radio's privileges during the visit depended on keeping on the right side of the State Department...
...became one of the greatest press-agents of his time, and his only client was himself. He published seven books of personal adventure, which have sold over a million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien...
...nearly a month the U. S. press has enjoyed a field day reporting the personalities, the plans, the doings and the dress of Britain's King and Queen for the benefit of kingless, queenless Americans. Last week it was the turn of the British press to report on the U. S. for the benefit of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's subjects. English newspapers made a thoroughgoing...
Having done its bit to educate its readers, the English press proceeded to rib them with reports of the U. S. reception to its rulers in what it must have considered U. S. terms. The Daily Mirror's, lead article began: "The land of amazing parades saw its most astounding ever when the King and Queen drove through 600,000 whooping, cheering Americans to the White House." The crowds sang God Save the King in swing time, the Mirror reported, adding that Americans greeted the visitors with shouts of: "Hiya, King, what about a little hustle...