Word: disinterestedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Propaganda," said the editorial, "can only represent a self-serving and partisan view. Therefore it corrupts the stream of public information. What the world needs is truth, all sides of every story, written by disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or...
After Dean Pound's address, Stoughton Bell, a Cambridge lawyer and member of the Harvard Law Association, presented to President Lowell a portrait of Dean Pound painted by Charles Hopkinson of Boston. Under Secretary of State Joseph P. Cotton in his speech to the assemblage pointed out the unique role...
In 1920 Mr. Kvale faced Mr. Volstead in the Republican primaries and won, but in so doing he called Mr. Volstead an Atheist. Mr. Volstead went to court. His daughter Laura testified that he was "a good Christian man, a good father," and the judge ordered Mr. Kvale removed from...
Far-flung recognition soon came to the Harrises. In 1926, the Enquirer-Sun received the Pulitzer Prize for journalism for "disinterested and meritorious public service," and Julian Harris was placed on the Pulitzer advisory award jury. And when, last year, the Enquirer-Sun celebrated its 100th anniversary, many a famed...
Now he has trained upon a target whom he dared to attack only by indirect fire during his Army service-President Coolidge. "I recommended in 1925," he now writes, "that a board of disinterested persons be convened by the President to determine how the aeronautical problem should be handled in...