Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...
...seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee Colonel, fought with distinction, tried (and nearly succeeded) to kidnap the Kaiser. Then he plunged into publishing the Nashville Tennessean, Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal, Knoxville Journal...
Having learned three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable...
Last week, without "shrinking," the Journal was officially folded into the Daily News and made a part of it. Henceforth subscribers of the two newspapers will be served by one full-sized daily, The Chicago Daily News and Chicago Daily Journal. The facts behind the tabloid rumor proved to be as follows: Publisher Thomason of the defunct Journal, retaining those members of his staff who were not taken over to the Daily News in the consolidation, will issue soon an afternoon tabloid newspaper, known as the Daily Times. Copiously illustrated, wholly independent of the Daily News & Journal, it will...
...phrase was "dew wife." It came to light in Manhattan's Chinatown, in a subtle feud between two newspapers, the Chinese Nationalist Daily News and the Chinese Journal. The feud was aggravated some months ago when the Nationalist flayed the Journal for publishing advertisements of Japanese goods. The Journal, edited by Communist Thomas P. Chan, replied by flaying the Nationalist for disrupting a Communist Chinatown meeting with well-aimed, overripe bananas and large juicy watermelons. Aggravation was not due merely to criticism of the raid, of which the Nationalist was most proud. But the Journal editorial referred...