Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...
...more tenable belief was that Andrei Zhdanov, press & propaganda chief, Heir-Apparent to the Stalin throne and political leader of the Leningrad district, was hipped on the subject of the defense of the Soviet Union's second largest city and managed to get Dictator Stalin alarmed too. In any case, whatever the causes or reasons, the U.S.S.R.'s grotesque impersonation of a bear being bitten by, a rabbit did the U.S.S.R.'s waning prestige and corroding ideals no worldwide good...
...Break? Outside Russia last week only the German press gave even lip service to the proposition that J. Stalin & Co. were justified in cracking down on Finland. In private conversations German officers gloomed that if the Red Army is kept fighting for any length of time the Russians will obviously cut down on the supplies they have promised to send the Nazis. Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter, observed in cold approval of Russia's course: "Strong powers are only forced to exert pressure on the weak when malicious and selfish advisers mislead a weak power...
Anti-Soviet demonstrations occurred in many South American capitals last week and the press was unanimous in echoing famed La Prensa of Buenos Aires, which viewed with alarm the recognition by Russia of a Red stooge Government in Finland. This "proves to the world the danger of Soviet methods," said La Prensa, "since it appears its policy is to utilize emissaries in all countries who remain hidden until an opportune moment...
...vast pyramid of women's war organizations is Queen Elizabeth, whose wardrobe contains a choice assortment of female uniforms (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week in Paris petite Eve Curie, newly installed as Chief of the Feminine Section of the Ministry of Information, made it very plain to the press that most French women, unlike their British sisters, have no time for flossy uniforms, showy organizations. From the French point of view, the fact that Britain still has less than 1,000,000 men under arms, whereas France has more than 5,000,000, means that as yet British women...