Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening of May 10, 1866, 400 copies of the new journal arrived from the printer and were placed on sale at Richardson's book store, and the morning's mail carried the first Advocate to each of the Overseers and every member of the Corporation. When split in faculty opinion forestalled disciplinary action, the publication was allowed to "live or die on its own merits." Watt and his interim committee are putting out their first postwar issue this week in much the same spirit...
...reception hall of the Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...
...next 24 years John Benjamin Powell came to know China, its people and their problems as few other foreigners did. His China Weekly Review became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation...
Last week, as the state Supreme Court deliberated, the Journal diplomatically kept mum lest it be accused of trying to influence the Court. But the Journal's two G-men, Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated...
...chiropractors were in trouble again last week. In Charleston, S.C., three patients had died after chiropractic treatments. M.D.s had never seen the like before: two of the patients had apparently succumbed to brain injuries.* The Journal of the American Medical Association printed the horrifying report...