Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a fight with Boston's notorious Mayor Curley, Gruening was forced to resign as managing editor of the Boston Traveller. Then he edited the failing Boston Journal. Later he went to Manhattan to find out what was the matter with Frank Munsey's New York Sun. His findings were not appreciated; he decided that Munsey was causing all the trouble...
...Ottawans, who like the free & easy manner of their own bigwigs, all this seemed like unnecessary fuss & feathers. Said the Ottawa Journal: "This is the American way.. . . The fact is that President Truman could walk alone in any Ottawa street ... in as complete safety as he enjoyed when he was a haberdasher in a small Midwest town.* He might be asked for his autograph, but that would...
...this week entered his 21st year as Prime Minister. If he stays in office until April 20 of next year (highly probable), he will break the alltime record for Empire Prime Ministers, set by Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain from April 1721 to February 1742. *The bemused Journal should mind its geography. Kansas City has 400,000 population; Ottawa...
Last week Dr. Myerson, director of research at Boston State Hospital, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that his dramatic experiment had worked well in other cases, seemed to be just right for uncomplicated types of hysterical amnesia.* The combination of a narcotic and a stimulant, he said, appears to be ideal for increasing "communication...
...current American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Menninger gets right down to cases and gives a brisk lecture-not to society in general-but to his 4,000 psychiatric colleagues. To meet their postwar responsibilities, he implies, they had better pay less attention to rich ladies with imaginary complaints in their heads and jewels on their fingers, and more to the unhappy man in the streets. The war, says ex-Brigadier General Menninger (the Army's chief wartime psychiatrist) brought psychiatry to a crossroads: "We may continue to permit our chief emphasis to be . . . in seeing six or eight analytic...