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Word: reports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to reports from Chungking last week, Chinese secret-service operatives trailed a Japanese woman, with the blood of Manchu princes flowing in her veins, from Hong Kong, where she directed the activities of 370 Japanese spies in South China, to Tientsin. There, fortnight ago, they shot her dead. If this report of the death of Yoshimiko Kawashima was reliable (the Japanese promptly declared she was merely wounded, later rescued), an end was put to the career of one of Japan's ablest woman spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Joan of Jehol | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Washington, 30 more throughout the U. S.). Since almost anything WPA might say about its putting the jobless to work cannot help being propaganda of a sort, it tries these days not to say too much.* No WPA movie, radio transcription or "special report" is sent to anyone who does not submit a written, signed request...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Men | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information Men | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...annual report last week, the National Conference of Jews & Christians changed its name - to the National Conference of Christians & Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Names | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dog Day | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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