Word: believerism
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Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a...
Royal Progressive. The King was a believer in progress. He even let his wives leave the harem occasionally to go to a cremation. Twice a week, at midnight, the King held a secret council of the San Luang, the Royal Inquisition. This nocturnal Gestapo kept spies in all influential households...
Taxpayers' Money? Where was the money coming from? The Government did not say. Nearest thing to an official answer came from the Prime Minister's parliamentary assistant, Brooke Claxton, who made hopeful noises about increasing "the consuming and purchasing power of the whole community," presumably increasing tax revenues...
"Passionate Believer." Jack Knight inherited the Akron Beacon-Journal from his father. He has achieved an Akron monopoly by absorbing his Scripps-Howard competitor, gone on to acquire the Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. The three papers operate independently of one another. Knight is currently among those most...
A stickler for keeping news columns factual and unbiased, Publisher Knight describes himself as "a passionate believer in personal journalism," lives up to it by writing a signed "Editor's Notebook" on his editorial pages. His sentences are short and punchy. His aim: to be independent but not neutral...