Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Creel for the U.S. cause, the Ridders rode out the war, while five of their seven German-language competitors folded. But they were convinced that there was no future in the foreign-language press, since most immigrants wanted to learn English. In 1926 the Ridders bought the New York Journal of Commerce and the feeble (circ. 12,000) Long Island Daily Press in Jamaica...
Kentucky's John S. Cooper, endorsed by the liberal Louisville Courier-Journal, was a G.O.P. winner in a normally Democratic state. The tall, 200-lb. circuit court judge, a veteran of World War II, campaigned as a supporter...
John Brophy, 45, who won handily over Edmund V. Bobrowicz, branded a Communist in Democrat's clothing by the Milwaukee Journal. A bald, chunky onetime Socialist and Progressive, Brophy became a Republican when the Progressives merged with the G.O.P. last spring...
...Song of the South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There can be no higher...
...book-loving Baptist preacher, Johnson had been a brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...