Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drew Pearson once remarked that his job as a newspaperman was "to spur the lazy, watch the weak and expose the corrupt." For 37 years, until his death of a heart attack last week at 71, Pearson took on that task with the zeal of a cub reporter and earned...
Which, of course, was simply untrue. Pearson was, rather, a dedicated muckraker who sometimes erred in piecing together an event from details provided by his friends-or even by his enemies out to get someone. He often played favorites (Lyndon Johnson, Wayne Morse), but favoritism was no safeguard against Pearson...
Enemy of Rascals. Unlike many other columnists, Pearson was not ideologically predictable. He was a New Deal liberal, but he attacked F.D.R. for trying to pack the Supreme Court as enthusiastically as he later crusaded against Senator Joseph McCarthy. Over the years, disclosures in Pearson's column sent four...
Died. Erika Mann, 63, German-born daughter of Novelist Thomas Mann, her self a highly regarded author noted for her powerfully anti-Nazi writings in the 1930s; of a brain tumor; in Zurich, Switzerland. Like her Nobel prizewinning father, Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933...
Bias Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy...