Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written, time out of mind. In 1917, when China's civilization began to come rapidly apart, plain speech (pai-hua} began to be literarily respectable, is now the accepted written language for China's literates. To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories...
Professor Ortega, who left Spain during the civil war and is at present living in France, has written much as an author, journalist, and scholar on modern political and philosophical themes. His most influential works have been "The Modern Theme," written in 1923 and translated into English in 1933; and "The Revolt of the Masses," written in 1930 and translated...
Dictator Mussolini who in 1922 covered the abortive Conference of Cannes as an ordinary journalist received in Palazzo Venezia last week Webb Miller of the United Press who was also at the Cannes Conference, last year covered the war in Ethiopia. The two men had not met for five years and Mr. Miller found Dictator Mussolini "more mild . . . more genial. . . . His hair has thinned noticeably. . . . Commenting on his obvious appearance of health, I asked Mussolini to permit me to publish his personal rules for conserving his mental and physical health under constant strain...
...seven years hard" that Kipling worked as a journalist in India gave him all his training, most of his material, laid the foundations of a success that would resound in any day. He was 50% of his paper's white staff, and since his married chief dined at home and he at the club, heard daily what his readers thought of him. The manifold duties of his job, the consciousness of being an English sahib, matured Kipling precociously. He was green, but not for long. "My Chief took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed...
...MARCH OF JAPAN-Edgar Lajtha-Stokes ($3). A useful primer on still-unfamiliar Japan, her social, political and economic paradoxes, by an observant Hungarian journalist. Illustrated with photographs...