Word: radio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Close any radio station, or take it over for Government...
...desk in the blue-walled room stood a vase of roses; on the table behind a vase of gladioli. Signs of stress were an electrically tuned radio on a chair near the fireplace, another radio near Eddie Moore's door, a calendar from which careful Secretary Moore had forgotten to tear off the August sheet...
...Italy was profoundly impressed by Germany's advance ; as the Army reached Warsaw, jeers at Britain filled the Italian press. Although Germany announced that after the Polish victory the Führer would return to Berchtesgaden to have a chat with Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, although the German radio ridiculed attempts to "lure away the Italians from their Teutonic allies," Mussolini...
...Hermann Wilhelm Goring, most popular (after Hitler) and most portly of Nazis. On the eighth day of Germany's advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...
...Propaganda Ministry (see col. 2) exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile, Hitler peering through a telescope, Lord Macmillan at first clamped down on all wire and radio photos. Main channel of Britain's publicity appeared to be the radio, over which announcers with an air of detached candor and without heat discussed military operations; and the cinema. Moving newsreels of evacuation of children from London, of mothers weeping at the separation from their children, placed the responsibility...