Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story dealing with Mr. Emanuel Levi's leaving the Courier-Journal of Louisville and assuming responsibility as publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner is a very excellent one. Mr. Levi's ability is generally recognized. His extremely valuable service to the Courier-Journal and Times is a matter of common knowledge...
...Attention has been called to an article which appeared this morning in the New York Journal to the effect that Mrs. Huey P. Long is reliably reported to be engaged to remarry. I am authorized to state for Mrs. Long that no more damnable, deliberate untruth has ever been published and that unless satisfactory apology and public retraction is made, the publishers of such a story will be prosecuted...
Practically as momentous was another report by other Rockefeller Institute investigators in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Drs. Christopher Howard Andrewes and Richard Edwin Shope found that a virus which affects rabbits changes its effects for no known cause. Some inoculations cause tumors, some inflammation. If the same virus can cause one result in one creature and another result in another creature, possibly other viruses mutate likewise...
...told to turn out a series of articles on social diseases, how to cure them, where free treatment might be obtained. Last week the Warren articles were bound in a pamphlet, titled Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, priced at 5?, put on sale in the News Information Bureau, where the helpful journal also peddles at nominal rates sound advice on cookery, fashions, reducing exercises. To top it all, the News took generous space in its own pages to advertise Venereal Diseases & Prophylaxis, thus breaking all records in modern metropolitan journalism for frankness on an elaborately tabooed subject...
...this sort of business, I am glad to set down in my journal, is a waste of precious time. Those uninspired Representives cannot be moved Delicate discourse on communism, constitutions, free love and growing babies--however interesting--will never change ideas petrified with political emotion. Some people can be convinced only in terms of numbers and majorities; our representatives, it seems to me, are of that unfortunate sort. If the bill is repealed; which, bless my soul, I doubt, it will not be because of ideals, appeal to reason or even to common sense but because the committee is made...