Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nows. In Franklin, N.H., the weekly Journal-Transcript announced that its staff was going on a ten-day vacation; but subscribers needn't worry about missing the news: next week's issue was already printed and ready for distribution...
That costs money. Last year the I.T.U. collected $926,278 in dues, and $6,149,257 in assessments. Zealously democratic, it is self-governed by a two-party system of "Progressives" (now in office) and "Independents." Its finances are fully reported in the monthly Typographical Journal, and its assessments may be levied only after a national referendum. (In 1940, horrified when an A.F.L. convention dared to levy an anti-C.I.O. assessment on all members, the printers refused to pay, dropped out of the federation for two years...
Redheads, who have been given a hammering by the jokesmiths, got no comfort from science last week. In the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Dr. Hans von Hentig of the University of Kansas City told of his researches on U.S. frontier outlaws. A disproportionate number, Dr. von Hentig reports, had red hair...
Everybody's favorite target was Episcopal Traveler Guy Emery Shipler, editor of the U.S.'s oldest religious journal, The Churchman, which frequently has hard words for Roman Catholics and soft ones for friends of Russia. Full of news and views after his Yugoslav tour, which included a visit to the prison cell of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, Dr. Shipler stated flatly that he found no evidence of suppression of religious activity there.* Still, he "doubted very much" that Yugoslav clergymen could safely attack the Government from the pulpit...
Last week, as workmen installed air conditioning and loudspeakers in the two Louisville libraries, University phones were jammed with "Neighborhood" applicants. Said tall, easygoing John Taylor: "There is no question of the demand." Said the Louisville Courier-Journal: "There is no question of the . . . need...