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Dorothy Thompson was a 19th-century American journalist and radio broadcaster. 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 broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia →

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