Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Columnist Raymond Clapper, frankly dazed by the show: "Some day they may put Helen Hayes in the part, but she'll never do it any better than Madame Chiang acted it in real life...
Predictions, 1942. Many a forecast for 1942 turned out poorly. Columnist Raymond Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry...
Boddy is easily the star attraction in a paper that contains the writings of stars like Drew Pearson, Raymond Clapper, Eleanor Roosevelt. He averages 3,000 words a day, turns out all the paper's inside editorials, writes the front-page Views of the News column, does three 15-minute radio broadcasts a week. He still has time to grow so many camellias at his Pasadena ranch that he has become No. 1 U.S. commercial camellia grower...
...Four lobbies mainly represent the well-to-do big commercial farmers, the top 10% who sell 50% of all U.S. farm products on the markets. As always, they utterly dominate the men Columnist Ray Clapper called "their slaves...
...carried out. He was aided in the debate by a longtime farm-bloc member, now seceded, Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney. The two carried the day. Next day the public press descended on the farm bloc and the farm lobby like a million tons of bricks. Columnist Clapper used the most powerful language...