Word: journaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one American journalist I know of ever set out in overalls to make a life work of getting the truth about what the great Communist experiment is doing to Russian life. His name is John Scott; he is back in this country now as one of the Foreign News editors of TIME; and his story is so interesting that I was sure you would like to hear...
Scott made up his mind to find out the real truth about the Soviets while he was still at the University of Wisconsin. He figured a good factory worker would be a lot more welcome in Russia than another foreign journalist-so after college he went to the General Electric works at Schenectady and earned his certificate as a master electric welder. He took out a union card here, sailed for Russia-and then went to college all over again to learn the language there...
When he was a boy in Kansas, Ike picked his future. Five other brothers (there were no sisters) became: the vice president of a trust company, a lawyer, a druggist, an electrical engineer, a journalist (Milton, now Elmer Davis' chief assistant in OWI). But out of this peaceful Midwestern family, Ike emerged as a soldier...
Damon Runyon chipped in. So did newspapermen in Denver. Funds came from Author-Scenarist Gene Fowler, Col lier's Editor William Chenery, Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr, New York Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe, Manhattan Drama Critic Burns Mantle, many another journalist and ex-journalist who had cut his teeth on Denver papers, in the good old days...
...Prensa. The Argentine Government issued a special commemorative postage stamp. Nationwide collections were taken to erect a monument. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a laudatory cable, as did many another foreign notable. It was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Argentina's most famous journalist...