Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knew As Much . . ." In 1929, when the Laborite Daily Herald was reorganized, Ernest Bevin picked Francis Williams for his City (i.e., financial) Editor. Says Williams: "I have always felt that a specialist journalist should know as much as, say, the bankers and stockbrokers. . . or whatever department of journalism he is working in. . . . I put myself in a position in which I knew as much as they did, if not a bit more...
Last week France's No. 1 journalist-in-exile packed his belongings in Washington, including his cocker spaniel Busy Bee, gift of his good friend Walter Lippmann, and got ready to sail home. He hoped to celebrate his 63rd birthday on the Atlantic. It had been five years and four months since "Pertinax" sailed out of Bordeaux on a British destroyer, away from a France which had not heeded his Cassandra-like warnings...
...bigger one: what shall be done with the great industrialists, the zaibatsu? Certainly, the trust situation is worse here than even in Germany. Everybody tells tales about the zaibatsu's imperialism, their bludgeoning of competitors, their profiteering. But there is no documentation, probably because, as a French journalist, just released from internment, said: "Really important things were known only to a handful of men, those who did them, and they won't tell...
...Soviet reporter is free because no exterior opinions can influence him. The Soviet journalist is an official worker. He gets wages for his work, but he does not work for money. . . . Abroad the journalist's profession is a career. With us it is a combat post...
...Princess Lamarr had a brain in her head she would realize that the poor boy is head over heels in love with her, and have a little pity-or some feasible substitute. But she is too much absorbed in whether Warner Anderson, a rather sour-eyed journalist she once knew abroad, still loves her, and she crudely exploits the bellhop's affections in order to get another interview with the reporter. This begins to be really painful when Mr. Walker courts her in a hired dress suit, under the impression that she wants to make him her prince consort...