Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bishop Oxnam has figured widely in the news recently in the dispute in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is scheduled to address a teachers' convention of the East Tennessee Education Association. Shortly after the announcement of his intended visit, the Knoxville Journal started a protest movement against his reception on the ground that he was communistic...
Attacks in the Journal's columns were of a threatening nature and attracted wide public attention. Both the Bishop and the local Methodist organization in Knoxville denied the charges and said that he intends to keep the engagement on October 31 and November 1 this fall...
Henry Wallace came from Iowa, where he was the editor of Wallace's Farmer, the journal founded by his Republican grandfather. He was friend and spokesman of the men of the soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...
...Harry Truman and his Democrats did not already look sufficiently foolish, up popped the Milwaukee Journal with evidence that they had clutched a Communist to their heaving bosoms. The very day of the Wallace speech, the President had posed outside the White House with assorted Democratic congressional candidates, among them Edmund V. Bobrowicz of Wisconsin. He shook hands with them and gave them his party-leader blessing. To harassed Harry, it must have seemed a safe and harmless gesture...
...even this routine performance backfired. Bobrowicz, the Journal said, was a Communist. No one would say when he joined the Democratic Party, although in the Aug. 13 primary he had defeated the conservative Democratic incumbent, Thaddeus Wasielewski, for the nomination in Milwaukee's 4th District. Bobrowicz, a blond war veteran of 27, and an official of the C.I.O.'s Redlined Fur and Leather Workers' Union, denied the Communism charge. He had had the support of open and avowed Communists and the P.A.C...