DOROTHY THOMPSON
(Dorothy Celene Thompson)
The madness of Nazism was getting established in Germany. One of the first thing that dictatorships do when they want to take total control is to hobble, censor, intimidate or eliminate the press. Thompson was one of the first jouralists to warn about Adolph Htler. She was expelled from Germany for her “unflattering” way of describing Hitler.
At the time, land was much more of a necessity for the average person than today in America. But in early America and much of the rest of the world today, without land one had little or no opportunity to do almost anything. So equality of land distribution was necessary for equality of opportunity. America never solved the problem of equality of land distribution; we just developed an economy where land was not longer so critical to opportunity.
Dorothy Celene Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt.
