Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Bellamy, a 38-year-old New England journalist, published a book called Looking Backward. More than a million copies of it were sold. It stirred the U. S. and Europe. It was the story of a 19th Century man who went to sleep and woke up in the year 2000 and was shown what the world was like then. This marvelous book described radio and television. It told of giant umbrellas to spread over whole cities to keep off rain and snow. But its chief interest was that it told how poverty had been abolished, how private industry...
Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
...this invitation to flee. In the Major's high-powered car, escorted by soldiers, the Commission dashed to Santander, just missed a boat for England, dashed on and were put safely across the frontier into France. On the train to Paris they were offered copies of a French journalist's report on Spain's atrocities appearing in the weekly Je Suis Partout. This charged that Spanish nuns were raped indiscriminately in Asturias, that some 30 priests were butchered or "roasted alive slowly," that prisoners taken by the rebels were ordered to stand motionless for hours and shot...
Without such preliminary advantages, Bertrand and Dora Russell tried hard to apply their creed to their own lives. Even when the London Times last year announced the birth of a child to Countess Russell and a journalist named Griffin Barry, her philosophic husband took it almost as a matter of course. But behind even the most determinedly modern thought lie old-fashioned impulses ingrained by generations of social custom, Last spring Countess Russell filed suit for divorce, charging adultery. The Earl did not contest the action of his onetime partner in sex education...
Died. Alfred Richard Orage, 61, British economist and journalist, editor of The New Age from 1907 to 1922, of The New English Weekly from 1932 until his death; in London. Lucid and incisive-minded. Editor Orage excited more British and U. S. writers than did any other single man of his time. In The New Age he launched 40 famed writers including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Rebecca West, The Brothers Powys...