Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Policy Critic. Jimmy Byrnes already had an eight-man advisory board of Administration stalwarts when he became Director of Economic Stabilization. Four days later, Franklin Roosevelt added six more: to represent labor, farmers and management. Five were well-known presidents of well-known pressure groups.* Least known to the U.S. public, but highly respected in Washington for his practical know-how, was the sixth: bald, outspoken Ralph E. Flanders, 62, a shrewd and independent Yankee and a top-drawer engineer...
...national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
Intellectual Eunuch. With his fiery reputation, red beard and white complexion, women found Shaw fascinating. They disagreed with a critic's description of him as looking like "an unskillfully poached egg" or being, as H. G. Wells said spitefully, "an intellectual eunuch." He fell blissfully in love with Socialist Poet William Morris' daughter May. But she married a mutual friend. In later years he admitted that May had a mustache, insisted that "it made a pair of lines so decorative that they would have enchanted the finest Maori tattoo artist...
Last December Claudia got her break: Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun (present circ. 310,000) hired her as its music critic. Last week she got another: the Chicago Tribune snatched her away from the Sun, will now spread her opinions before 1,150,000 readers...
...Chicago press in bad shape musically. The Sun replaced Claudia with aging (70), venerable Felix Borowski, who has written eminently sound but eminently dull notes for the Chicago Symphony programs for years. The Chicago Daily News, on a policy of penny-wisdom, has been having its syrupy art critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which is what many brokers have a lot of in 1942). The Herald-American has its patriarch, 83-year...