Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niceto Alcala Zamora had no connection last week with either Spanish Rightists or Spanish Leftists, except that the latter have his two sons. "The Government of Valencia has thus pointed a contraband dagger at my heart by taking from me hostages beyond all price," wrote Alcala Zamora in the Journal de Geneve. "An aching heart has steeled itself by a supreme effort to recover the fullness of its liberty, the liberty of the pen and the liberty of action-action faithful to my convictions as a patriotic Republican...
Objective editors noted with keen interest last week that Niceto Alcala. Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
...Providence, the proud old Journal (circulation, 44,000) and its evening running mate, the Bulletin (circulation, 98-663), are two rear-guard Republican sheets in a Democratic State. Major owners of the two papers are the dignified, prosperous Metcalf brothers, textile tycoons long listed among the big potentates of small Rhode Island. Last week, the Metcalfs suddenly found themselves standing by to repel journalistic boarders...
Rowdy Democrats from dingy Pawtucket, five miles away, seemed to be approaching on two quarters, armed to the teeth. The Pawtucket Star, a weekly established to bait the Journal, was to become a daily tabloid, change its title to Rhode Island Star. Back of the Star was Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Back of him was Walter E. O'Hara, managing director of Pawtucket's Narragansett race track. Announcing the change, the Star defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back...
Married. William Curley, editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal; and one Mary Grace; at "La Cuesta Encantada" on the Hearst Ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, Doris Duke Cromwell, Marion Davies...