Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City shakedown was not notably different from the small-time racketeering in many U. S. cities. Typical, too, was the comparative apathy of the victims -employers and employes-and the police. But in the office of the Kansas City Journal-Post, a body of evidence was accumulating. The Journal-Post has the doleful distinction of having been the first U. S. paper to mention the availability of Alfred Mossman Landon as a Presidential candidate. Six weeks ago, the Journal-Post finally completed its pipeline into the racketeering sewer, gushed forth the story. It gave evidence of unpunished vandalism...
...hours later, a taxi drew up at a street intersection in the Plaza district of Kansas City, Mahan stepped out and gave himself up to waiting police. At week's end, former Labor Leader Mahan was arraigned on ten charges, held in $8,500 bail. The Journal-Post, satisfied that window-smashing was over, prepared to expose other rackets. One thing it wanted explained was why Kansas City gambling joints scrupulously served no liquor, while liquor joints scrupulously allowed no gambling...
...justified, 64% feel that war is justifiable on occasion, but by a quirk of feminine logic 87% regard invasion of the U. S. or its possessions as such an occasion. These opinions appeared this week in another nationwide survey of women conducted by the news-nosy Ladies' Home Journal. Other opinions...
...really important entries in Homer's journal, recurring about once a week, are his dreams of his old sweetheart Fran. These dreams start soon after he runs away from Buffalo, jealous because she talked to another boy. Homer believes his visions are mystic bulletins telling in exact detail what happens to her; he is, of course, 100% wrong. When, in one of them, Fran's clothesline breaks, Homer writes severely: "I should think Clark [her dream husband] could at least put up a wire clothesline...
Toward the last third of the journal, when Homer is in his 40s, he begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...