Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly three weeks had been the world's most sought after newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...
What. Mr. Justice Black did not seem to realize was that in the 20th Century there is simply no corner of the earth to which the press will not go-and in force -to get what it wants. Significantly, it was on Chesapeake Bay ten years ago that a group of U. S. newspapermen, tossing in a small boat, made the first contact with another diffident news character, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, homeward bound on the cruiser U.S.S. Memphis after his flight to Paris. Just as in 1927, a boatload of reporters had been out all night in a motor launch...
Twelve days earlier in London, Mr. Justice Black had snapped at a Hearst reporter who had pressed him for a statement on his Klan affiliation "I don't see you! I don't know you! And I don't answer you!" But as he faced no less than 100 newshawks who swarmed outside the City of Norfolk's, Cabin 18, the newest member of the Supreme Court was affability itself. Addressing Jesse Frederick Essary, Baltimore Sun man who is Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with...
...Margaret Hitchcock in 1903. As a reporter, Mr. Doorly kept his job only because he was the publisher's daughter's fiance, but he struck his stride as a want-ad salesman, quickly became advertising and then business manager. In nine years the paper was in the black and since 1912 has made money every year, multiplying enemies but losing no ground when it deserted staunch Senator Hitchcock's time-honored Democratic partisanship to oppose the New Deal in the 1936 campaign...
...countered with the label "Economic Royalists." To take emotionalism and prejudice out of labels, Analyst Miller proposes to study what the name means, whether it is truly applied, who uses it, why. Marked for early treatment by the institute are the Propagandas swirling about Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, Henry Ford Tom Mercer Girdler, the C. I. O, Spain...