Word: stampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relieve young Count Ciano's ufficio stampa (Press Bureau) of any difficulty in explaining Italy's future moves in Abyssinia, Dictator Mussolini as War Minister abruptly took over its functions. No more mimeographed handouts will be issued, he decreed. Correspondents will get their news orally at the War Office, face drastic prosecution if their verbal informant sees fit to accuse them of misquotation. Press feats of the week included high praise in every Italian paper for a mother who, asked why she was sobbing on the dock as her soldier son sailed, explained through her tears...
Last May Publisher Agnelli opened La Stampa's new 19,000,000-lire ($1,600,000) building, a model plant with the latest presses, telephoto receiving apparatus and even television rooms. Last month he plunged far ahead of his competitors with a venture unheard of in the U. S. He supplied each of La Stampa's foreign bureaus with portable wireless sets to flash photographs to the Turin plant...
...staffed La Stampa with crack journalists. His editorials are considered almost as authoritative as if they appeared in II Duce's Popolo...
Last week word reached the U. S. of Publisher Agnelli's latest exploit. He equipped every Stampa reporter, at home and abroad, with a small, high-powered candid camera. Henceforth Stampa newshawks will be expected to snap everything newsworthy they see, indoors or out, without fussing with flashlights...
Before the Senator embarked on his year of innovation, La Stampa had 200,000 circulation. Last week it reached 295,000, was stepping hard on the heels of the panting leader, Milan's Corriere della Sera...