Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...TIME noted that the report of the Fulda conference came from the German News Agency (DNB). A report from Geneva recently called the German report "spurious" and denials have now come from Vatican City that Osservatore will cease publication...
...soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population in 150 years...
Last week the people in the U. S. had their first public report on the status of the Battle of Britain from a U. S. expert who had the best possible chance of knowing. Brigadier General George V. Strong flew home from London, via Lisbon, after a month in Britain with a U. S. Army observation commission. The U. S. Army has always shown considerable respect for German power and generalship, but General Strong was optimistic about Britain's chances. He said that in Britain there had been "as yet no serious military damage"; that British claims of German...
...space devoted to church doings, Methodists 9.7%, Lutherans 8.6%, Presbyterians 7.8%, Episcopalians 7%, Baptists 5.6%, Jews 4.5%, other faiths 27.1%, according to a three-month survey of 56 leading daily papers published last week in The Lutheran. Church news occupied .7% of the total news space surveyed. Said the report...
...from the aerial middle-of-the-road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made...