Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last correction. "The first quoting interview ever given by J. Stalin to a foreign journalist was obtained by Eugene Lyons," you pontifically announce. Wrong once more...
Since you coupled me with Eugene Lyons, whom you characterize as "a thoroughly professional journalist," as against my being an unprofessional partisan, the following correction is in order...
...never belonged to any political party or clique. For more than 20 years I have consistently and deliberately pursued the course of an independent journalist and author. In fact, there is nothing in my record which does not entitle me to be called "a thoroughly professional journalist." (See story by George Seldes in current Esquire...
...called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool, then-according to Author Pearson-absentmindedly mislaid them somewhere...
...having failed in England as staymaker, sailor, schoolmaster, excise officer, husband, no man could have predicted the extent of the fame or the abuse that awaited him. Ranked by his contemporaries with Washington and Jefferson, he lived to see popular opinion of himself summed up by his onetime enemy, Journalist William Cobbett: "Men will learn to express all that is base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season...