Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution and by the inability of Shanghai papers to grasp its meaning, jumped...
...once, breezy, brassy Lou Ruppel got more than he bargained for. When he christened Chicago ''Dirty Shirt Town" (TiME, Jan. 15. 1944), he not only aroused Chicagoans, as he had planned, but alarmed his boss, William Randolph Hearst. Last week Herald-American Executive Editor Ruppel answered a summons to San Simeon. The Chief was worried about offending too many Chicago people. Ruppel later described his visit...
...copy of the Dingell speech had reached bustling Cabell Phillips, Washington correspondent for Hearst's Chicago Herald-American, and Phillips saw a chance to get a Chicago man to reply; the Herald-American thinks the present button is good enough. He took the Dingell speech to genial, white-haired Representative Edward A. Kelly of Chicago, asked him to do something about...
Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
Next day, the New York Herald Tribune coldly took Tourist Crawford to task for his talk. "We used to have the American who applauded Mussolini because he ran trains on time. . . . Now we have Mr. Crawford . . . who believes France is a land of luxury because the Ritz Hotel. . . still has its big brass doorknobs. With this type of innocent abroad . . . there is not much that can be done...