Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chile, the Popular Front Government ordered deported Hans Voigt Schmidt, German State Railroads tourist agent in Santiago. His slip: receiving 100,000 anti-Jewish leaflets. Police charged German Railroads was planning a press and radio campaign to stir up political unrest and hatred of Chile's Jews...
...Arabs during the pressure of the World War, she has ever since tried to reconcile opposing Jewish and Arab ambitions. The British long hesitated to make a choice, preferring to muddle along without a policy. The Jews had the money, they could get a hearing in the world press. The Arabs had the numbers, and they proved by a murderous campaign of terrorism that they could make trouble...
...cost of $250,000, were more than 200 models of his inventions, in almost all of which he anticipated later inventors. Some of the contraptions: a jack (see cut); a turnspit driven by the draft of a chimney; a machine for cutting files and rasps; a printing press with movable type; an olive oil press such as is still used in Italy; a pile driver; an automatic saw; an automatic gear, like the differential in an automobile; a flying machine, whose bird-like wings were supposed to be powered by the operator, lying on his back and pumping with...
...Elizabeth across Canada this week (see p. 22) comes upon the wreckage of its pilot train and the mangled bodies of 56 correspondents and twelve photographers who are covering Their Majesties' trip. Besides brooding over such an unlikely fate, the representatives of the Canadian, U. S. and European press have the following causes for complaint: 1) a shortage of bathing facilities (one shower for seven women, another for 107 men); 2) absence of any laundry facilities; 3) the difficulty of getting enough to eat in one dining car; and 4) the fact that when the King arrives...
...spite of these minor discomforts, and in spite of an earlier bit of snootiness on the part of Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 15),* the King and Queen got a good press last week in the U. S. as well as Canada. Some of the credit went to fat, genial Walter S. Thompson, chief publicity agent of the Canadian National Railway System and pressherd of the Royal Tour. Some went to the press itself, which was notably well behaved. Most of it went to the King and Queen, who cor rected...