Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson , born the July 9th 1893 with Lancaster (State of New York) and deceased the January 30th 1961 with the Portugal, was a journalist American with the New York Herald Tribune ; it was qualified in 1939 by the magazine Time like one of the two most influential women of America, the other being Eleanor Roosevelt.

She was married with Sinclair Lewis in 1928, the second of her three marriages (its first was with Josef Bard). Their son, the actor Michael Lewis, was born in 1930. She divorced Lewis in 1942.

Grynszpan business

In 1938, Dorothy Thompson took the defense of an immigrant germano-Polish in France, Herschel Grynszpan, which had assassinated the third adviser of the embassy of Germany with Paris, Ernst vom Rath, event which had been used as tool of propaganda by the Nazis to justify the events of the Nuit of crystal in Germany. The broadcasts radio of Thompson on the NBC, listened by million people, involved a wave of sympathy to the young assassin. Thanks to the creation of funds of defense of the journalists, more than 40.000 dollars were collected, allowing the lawyer Vincent de Moro Giafferi to deal with the business.

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