Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century's turn Walter Wellman was an adventuring journalist. Having discovered the exact landing place of Columbus, and led two unsuccessful searches for the North Pole, he persuaded Publisher Frank B. Noyes in 1906 to put up $75,000 for an airship flight to the Pole. The money paid for the dirigible America I, in which Explorer Wellman & party collided with a glacier. Two years later America II also got into trouble. Before America II could make another try, Peary reached the Pole afoot and Explorer Wellman lost interest. However, his Arctic experience enabled him to sense, prove...
...pile the onus for a prospective war still higher on Japan Karl Radek, No. 1 Soviet journalist and propagandist, wrote for Izvestia: "Having seized Manchuria and improved railroad transportation systems there and constructed many new air-dromes, the Japanese military now openly propagates the necessity of war with the Soviet Union. The U. S. S. R. does not observe these military preparations with folded hands but openly prepares to defend Soviet territory...
Adapted by Aben Finkel and Sidney Sutherland, two able ex-journalist scenarists, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and acted, with characteristic authority, by Paul Muni, it would be rational to expect Hi, Nellie to be plausible. Instead it is another anthology of expletive improbabilities. The city room of the Times-Star is conducted as though it were a day nursery. The girl (Glenda Farrell) who precedes Bradshaw as "Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper...
...most conspicuous thing about this morning's CRIMSON was the relative scarcity of interesting of important news about University affairs. About two thirds of the front page is devoted to what you journalists probably call "World Affairs," but which I consider out of place in your columns. The CRIMSON has for years been an organ of student opinion at Harvard. It cannot successfully rival the Boston and New York papers (or even the Cambridge Sun) for news of international or national affairs. Any intelligent student wants to know more than the poor material offered in the CRIMSON on these matters...
John O. P. Bland, author and journalist, returned to the Lowell Institute on Friday to give a second series of lectures on "China Since the Revolution." The series will continue for the next seven weeks on Friday evenings...