Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston American, stayed for a year. To please his father, he took his M.D. degree, but he returned, immediately, to journalism. To the perplexity of his fellow reporters, all of whom thought it would be wonderful to be a rich doctor, Gruening preferred writing editorials for the Boston Herald at $27 a week...
Those words, addressed "to the Terrorists of Palestine," first appeared in full-page ads in the New York Herald Tribune and other U.S. papers last month. The ad asked millions for "medical relief and humanitarian aid." It concluded: "Hang on, brave friends, our money...
...tourists were mobilizing. Already this year they had stormed the State Department with demands for passports which threatened to come close to the record 203,174 issued in 1930. To map their offensive, the Paris Herald, long the Bible of U.S. expatriatism, was ready this week with the first tourists' guide to postwar Europe...
...Britain," says the Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book...
...interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney and onetime civilian aide to the Secretary...