Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unconfirmed was a report last week that the Graf Zeppelin was blown up at her moorings in Friedrichshafen
...hope for a short war faded last week, wishful thinkers turned to a fresh hope that might bring about war's end: the internal collapse of Germany. Outside the Reich, newspapers carried dispatch after dispatch pointing toward such a possibility. From Zurich came reports of rioting in Essen, Cologne and Dusseldorf; from Amsterdam a report that 500 Gestapo agents had been sent to put down strikes in the Krupp works at Essen. In Austria, Tyroleans were reported to have distributed 1,000,000 leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down...
...schools and colleges opened, many a student and teacher, stranded in Europe, failed to answer the roll call. But not resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund...
Even more disturbing than the lack of censors was the virtual absence of any news whatever from the Allied fronts. Reporters, barred for the present from the scene of war itself (though a limited number are expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long...
This unusual display of psychological humility occurred during the Association's meeting last week at Stanford University and University of California. The psychologists snapped back to normal with a grandiose report from their Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (of which Dr. Allport is a member) on how to keep the U. S. out of war. Findings...