Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Startled by the report that Japanese were outside the walls of Changsha, midway between Hankow and Canton, zealous city officials last week hurried to carry out their "scorched earth" policy (to destroy everything of value to the invaders). They made the mistake of forgetting to warn the populace in time. Fire roared through the city so fast that thousands of families were trapped. Firefighters struggled for five days before the flames were brought under control. Some 2,000 Chinese were burned to death, more injured...
...Japanese have tried various unsuccessful methods to stamp out destruction of their rail lines. Chinese farmers were forced to inspect the tracks and report loose or missing rails-which they did, but often only after helping the guerrillas tear up and hide the rails. A $5 reward was offered by the Japanese for returned rails-those Chinese who took advantage of the deal were executed when they returned home. Japanese troops tried burning the nearest Chinese village when the rails were cut. Chinese destruction only increased...
...news having reached the outside world despite the vigilance of Leftist censors, the Leftist Ministry of National Defense next day saw fit to issue a statement "correcting" the report of widespread damage and huge casualties. Correction: only four were killed, only 19 injured, the material damage was slight. New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who investigated the fire on the spot but was unable to cable the details abroad, agreed with this version...
...University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd, Dr. Gulick probed and tested schools throughout the State (but paid little attention to self-sufficient New York City), interviewed 45,900 parents, educators, employers, labor leaders, taxpayers, boys & girls in and out of school. Result was an eleven-volume report...
Worst failing of New York's schools, reported Dr. Gulick and his fellows, is that they do a bad job of educating high-school youth. Almost all boys & girls today enter high school. Four-fifths do not go on to college. Still largely classical and college preparatory, however, high schools "fail to give boys and girls a scientific point of view and an understanding of the world," funk their job of making good citizens. High-school youth, said the report, is "hardboiled" about democracy and freedom "and inadequately prepared to do what is required to preserve either...