Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Schuyler, a coal-black Negro, was a day laborer before he turned journalist and novelist (Black-No-More, Slaves Today). His white wife, Josephine Schuyler, a Texas-born painter and journalist, prepared for the birth of their child by eating nothing but raw food for three years...
Douglas Reed (Insanity Fair, Disgrace Abounding) is a supercilious, nervous British journalist, erstwhile correspondent of the London Times. His noisome Nemesis? must be taken with a grain of bath salt, but it has intrinsic interest...
...years, lean, bald, stubble-lipped Arnaldo Cortesi was a correspondent for the New York Times in Rome. Son of a robust, retired Italian journalist (who had for 29 years been head of the Associated Press bureau in Rome) and a Boston mother, Cortesi was perfectly equipped to tell U. S. citizens about Mussolini's Italy...
...world meeting. In a Europe dominated by Naziism it would have no place. This sad fact was mulled over in a pamphlet called Can Christianity Survive?, published by a group of churchmen including brisk, baldish Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, U. S. secretary of the Council. Edited by Religio-Political Journalist Stanley High, the pamphlet said nothing new about Naziism's enmity toward Christianity. But with its naked quotations from Hitler, Nazideologist Alfred Rosenberg and others, its German anti-religious cartoons, its cover drawing of a Cross being wrenched into a swastika, Can Christianity Survive? gave pointed ammunition...
...smart Journalist Jacques Tremoulet and Radio-Manufacturer Leon Kierkowsky built a radio station at Toulouse in southern France, gradually formed an imposing radio chain. As insurance against unfavorable regulation by the French Government, in 1935 they began building Radio Andorra. In the face of heated opposition from Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies, the pair went calmly ahead with the installation without official authorization. They finally finagled from France permission to broadcast, but were allocated no wave length on which to operate. Not to be stopped by such a triviality, in 1938 they blithely began experimental sending...