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...This Society is dedicated to the belief that the practice of journalism is an honored profession bearing the nature of public trust, the integrity and detachment of which are essential to free government and to preservation of liberties of the masses and minorities...
Portia on Trial (Republic). Frieda Inescort rattles the skeletons in the closet of ruthless Publisher Clarence Kolb to free Heather Angel of a murder charge...
...whose bailiwick the Government is building the great Bonneville Dam hydroelectric project. When reporters trooped in later for the regular press conference, they found the President full of thoughts on Power. He launched into a long dissertation on the theory of utility rates. By the time the reporters were free to head for telephones, they had a front-page business story, for the President had offered peace terms in the bitterest of all the battles he has waged since the New Deal's birth -The War Against Private Utilities...
...period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love with, and married, a woman whom he admitted to be not only unattractive, but unlettered and shrewish to boot...
...business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later, "and not a penny...