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...Harbin before those unfortunate outbreaks of "banditry" which caused Japan to take that strategic city on the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933).Today, so great is Spy Chief Doihara's reputation that he can be as modest as Colonels Lawrence and Lindbergh. Toothily last week he smiled: "What have I been doing this year in Peiping, in Tientsin, in Shanghai, in Nanking and here in beautiful Hongkong? Really...
...swivet because Kaufmann's department store, biggest in town, began to broadcast news over the radio (TIME, Jan. 28). The newspapers, Hearst's Sun-Telegraph, Paul Block's Post-Gazette, Scripps-Howard's Press, were prevented from doing so by the year-old Press-Radio "truce." Lacking the nerve to hit back by throwing Kaufmann advertising out of their papers, the publishers last fortnight did the next-best thing, canceled their own truce. Publisher Hearst took to the air with a news program simultaneous with the Kaufmann schedule. Scripps-Howard took periods immediately before Kaufmann...
...their treatment of labor, a crucial index to the sentiment of any modern government, the powers that be have repeatedly attempted to mollify strikers while really protecting employers, as some union leaders have complained. Pleas for a truce, for pacific adjustment of quarrels, generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize...
...undertook to control news broadcasting, all three Pittsburgh newspapers put news on the air. The Press (Scripps-Howard) worked through famed KDKA, first broadcasting station in the world; the Post-Gazette through WWSW; and Hearst's Sun-Telegraph through Hearst's WCAE. Then came the Press-Radio "truce" which forbade radio networks to give more than a smattering of news each day (TIME, Feb. 12). The Pittsburgh newspapers and their stations fell obediently into line...
Into that scene last autumn buzzed a gadfly named Transradio Press Service, an upstart newsgathering organization in the business of serving independent radio stations which preferred not to be bound by the truce (TIME, Oct. 29). In Pittsburgh Transradio found such a station in WJAS, which is locally owned but hooked into the Columbia network. WJAS found a potent sponsor in Kaufmann's department store, biggest, most progressive retail business in Pittsburgh. On New Year's Day, WJAS inaugurated two daily 15-min. news broadcasts, supplied by Transradio and paid for, $1,000 a week, by Kaufmann...