Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed Ladies' Home Journalist Edward William Bok was cradled at drowsy Helder, in the Netherlands, has achieved newsboy-to-vice-president&* success during his last 47 years (spent mostly in the U. S.). Recently he returned to the Netherlands, ferreted (with intent to laud) into the question of how much "success" Queen Wilhelmina has achieved during the quarter century of her reign. Mr. Bok saw much, and what he saw was good. Last week he conveyed to the Queen whose sovereignty he escaped by "Americanization" a memento of esteem-a stained glass window for the Nieuwe Kirk at Delft...
President Coolidge ought to be grateful, for the seeming warehouse is really a newspaper office, and the baldish prophet is no obscure, senile wiseacre; he is Arthur Brisbane, able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane...
Georges Jean Claude Leygues (September, 1920, to January, 1921), 68, journalist, poet, historian, ministerial veteran of the 90's under the late famed Premier Waldeck-Rousseau. He succeeded Millerand upon the latter's ascension to the Presidency, and dutifully continued a loyal henchman of the Right...
...conduct his affairs more astutely in the future; but he was. likewise determined, after having built up his California ventures into a new fortune, to turn triumphantly eastward and demonstrate to himself, his family and the world that he is what many already think he is, a potent journalist. He pictured himself buying or starting up a chain of eastern papers, avoiding Philadelphia and Manhattan, and becoming to the Atlantic seaboard what the late Edward Wyllis Scripps was to the Midlands...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...