Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disgusted news correspondent at the other end of the line replied: "I'm talking about the King's visit to France . . . officially known to the press for two hours. Don't you know...
...Office's wish to keep the visit secret had been firmly overridden by George VI, who said: "My people have a right to know where I am, and I don't wish the first news ... to be reported by Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen...
...News correspondents were "temporarily" withdrawn from the French front Jines last week, but not before Correspondent Kenneth T. Downs of International News Service managed, with a comrade, to spend three days and two nights at outposts held by Moroccans in the Vosges foothills near Wissembourg. His account of this trip was one of the first notable pieces of reporting in World War II. Excerpts...
Shrewd, rufous Hubert Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be bloodshed, and enough to go around to satisfy everybody...
Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they...