Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course everything anybody can learn by investigating the ocean and the organisms that live in it will be useful to somebody in some way at some time." So said the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, journalist and humanitarian, before founding the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. Last week came news of a characteristic undertaking of this institution. It stood sponsor for a whaling expedition off the San Clemente Islands...
...Ohio. But last week his daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman of self-righteousness...
...study, Fabian Franklin, economist and likewise journalist, Mr. Sullivan's senior by 22 years, scanned the article. He was accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
Captain Peter Emmanuel Wright, onetime Assistant Secretary to the Allied Supreme War Council, now a London journalist, ripped open not long ago a crisp envelope, read...
Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...