Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars. Since the Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting to "sic" the Senate on Mexico was clear. Public implication of the four Senators was, in the opinion of the decent U. S. press (see p. 20), an impudent journalist's "stunt...
Since I left office, I have worked hard as a journalist to earn my livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...even a constant perusal of the Advertiser occasionally fails to appease the public's taste for the elemental, the passionate primitive. Mr. Enwright is to be complimented on the success with which he has composed and executed his sheet without falling back on the usual resources of the journalist, news. And so, with evening comes the Transcript and with the Sabbath--the Telegram...
...PROHIBITION MANIA-Clarence Darrow & Victor S. Yarros-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). Using the much-heralded dry arguments of Professor Irving Fisher of Yale (advanced in Prohibition at its Worst) as a tackling dummy, Authors Yarros (Chicago journalist) & Darrow (famed Chicago lawyer) endeavor to prove that the 18th amendment should be considered an outmoded though undeniably humorous fantasy. Practically all of Professor Fisher's conclusions, 38 of his charts connecting the dry law with the decrease in drunkenness and juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book...
...Villard, the editor of The Nation, a magazine in which he expresses his own strong and rather radical political theories, has had wide-reaching experience as a journalist. After teaching at the University for two years following his graduation in 1893, he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Press in 1896, and a year later took up editorial writing for the New York Evening Post. He rose rapidly in his profession and soon became president of the Evening Post. Selling out his interests in this paper in 1918, he founded in that year the New York Nation, which he nows...