Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years have passed since any member of the Soviet Council of People's Commissars has received any foreign journalist, and thus last week the Moscow corps of correspondents was highly excited by an invitation to confer with Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in his Louis XV office which looks out across the street at the Secret Political Police building...
...Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since this British journalist is pro-Nazi and works for Lord Rothermere who is always received by Hitler when in Berlin. A schoolmaster of Hitler's boyhood, now nearly 80, had come tottering to see his pupil, the Führer, enter Linz, and a rollicking song rose with the chorus: "Today Germany...
Startling but not uninformed were comments on the war made on arriving at Victoria, B. C. last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan...
...thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer player, has plowed back some of Arsenal's million-dollar-a-year income. Some tony innovations: a Club Enclosure (special section for 150 $50-a-year members who come in bowlers and tweeds), "lifts...
Young Roswell was sent to Dartmouth (Class of 1916) where he was a shark at mathematics and a promising undergraduate journalist. After graduation he went to the University of Chicago's Law School, where he met and married Katherine Biggins. She finished law school with him and was admitted to the bar but instead of practicing became the mother of two small Magills...