Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important measures. "I have seen [in the House which has a cloture rule] a measure involving scores of millions of annual expenditure for all time to come put through with only 40 minutes of debate and the time parceled out by the opposing leaders. The founder of this journal [Benjamin Franklin], speaking in the Constitutional Convention, and using words suited to the polite customs of that day, described the Senate as 'the saucer into which the tea of legislation would be poured for cooling before drinking...
...providing for the thousands of refugees from Turkey. The Government announced that it intended to take disciplinary measures against the officers. General Kondylis, the War Minister, prepared to take energetic action to restore the Army's discipline. General Pangalos answered by contributing a statement to the Politcia, Athens journal: "Every hair on the heads of the Republican officers which may be interfered with will be paid for by the heads of Venizelists [Government Party].' It is known that I never threaten in vain. I now threaten." And he was as good as his word...
...Story amounts to the candid, cluttered journal of Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, a young man born in Japan of Russian-Scotch-Spanish-Italian-English-Finnish-Swedish ancestry. He is an Oxford intellectual, serious-minded, he feels, but is engaged for the present with a Major Percy Beastly on a mission to Manchuria for the British War Office. In the life of Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, wars and missions are very unimportant indeed: He spends a lot of time thinking about Life and Death, writing or making jokes about them. Nothing is very important...
Wall Street prides itself upon its practicality, and its freedom from academic theory. Recently, however, it has been engaged in a curiously theoretical dispute. An innocent reader of the Wall Street Journal sent the editor a query as to how he could invest $100,000 to best advantage, 20% in bonds and 80% in common stocks. The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community...
...good exciting finish," said the spelling editors of The Louisville Courier-Journal and other newspapers that had organized...