Word: ballards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
Back in 1911 a tousle-haired, 18-year-old country boy named Huey Long, from the "redneck" hills of Louisiana's Winn Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
Barry Corvall (sulky, hulky Joel McCrea) is a trig young U. S. diplomat in Morocco when civil war strands dark, sultry-eyed, plump-lipped Brenda Ballard (Newcomer Brenda Marshall) in his consulate. When Barry returns to Washington for a stretch at the foreign service school, he takes femme fatale Brenda with him. Though she is more suspicious as a woman with no past at all than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold...
...McBride, Princeton '40, representing the Princetonian; E. A. Ballard II, Yale '40 of the News, and Charles N. Pollak II '40 of the CRIMSON head the undergraduate committee handling the meeting...