Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the pleasant interlude would soon end. He had already given up plans for a trip to the Philippines to attend the Philippines' Independence Day. But while it lasted it was wonderful. Even rambunctious John L. Lewis was rumbling amicably from the sidelines. Said his United Mine Workers Journal: "President Truman performed his greatest public service on the domestic front to date when he vetoed the Case Bill. Truman hit the bulls...
...Governor of the Federal Reserve Board when Herbert Hoover made him the first chairman of the RFC. In his 13 years as owner-publisher of the Post he has converted it from a discredited, down-at-heel, old-line G.O.P. organ into a prosperous, independent journal...
...pursuit of costs, magazine prices were going up. First Curtis hiked Ladies' Home Journal, once a dime, from 15? to a quarter. LIFE this week went up a nickel to 15?. Nation and New Republic whispered to each other, decided they could get $6 a year instead...
Just marketed, and discussed last week in the Journal of Allergy, was another new hay fever drug called Benadryl. Experiments have indicated that Benadryl is an all-or-none drug; it gives complete relief to some 50% to 85% of allergy victims, helps the rest of them not a bit. When it works, it relieves both rashes and runny noses, sometimes makes patients drowsy, must be taken every few hours in capsule form...
...later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless by accident...