Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most news columns passion triumphed, while reason sat patiently wagging a finger on the editorial page. Typical was the tabloid New York Daily News. Like many another paper, the Daily News printed the French high command's terse, dry bulletins reporting the start of its drive against the German Westwall under headlines like a joyful yell...
...York Times was indignant over French and British censors who were holding up its cables. In an editorial the Times said: "This newspaper will, as far as possible, make plain the sources of its news dispatches. It will not print rumors as fact." Same day the Times announced that it had at last abandoned its sole reliance on Associated Press (of which it was a founder) and its own men, to complete its war coverage had taken United Press service as well...
Most columnists were either violently partisan like Dorothy Thompson or violently non-partisan like Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...
...London office of the New York Times one day last week a little bearded man stood glaring at a cablegram. Twenty hours earlier the British liner Athenia, with 300-odd American war refugees aboard, had been torpedoed off the coast of Scotland. In the dead of night, as the news reached London, correspondents, scenting the biggest German "atrocity" story since the sinking of the Lusitania, had descended on cable companies, roused up nodding operators to file their dispatches. It was now late afternoon, and the message in Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall's hand (from his home office) read...
...that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...