Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book of Mr. Whiting, while bearing evidence of more painstaking accuracy, is also witness to the fact that at times a journalist can be less interesting than a politician. One suspects an industrious correspondent of poring over back newspaper files and making a conscientious if uninspired summary. At times he is distressingly literal and like Mr. Washburn submits frequent homilies on the humbler virtues. He does not vapor, however, about the broodings of Fate. Some extracts...
...scandal is that the acuter the food crisis, the louder the execrations against the Jew, who, poor devil, is quite as badly hit as any one else; perhaps even worse; for the Jew preponderates in the professional classes here and it is the lawyer, the doctor and especially the journalist who are having the keenest struggle to keep alive...
This Academician Is Also a Good Journalist Henry Seidel Canby, best known, perhaps, as Editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, possesses unquenchable vitality, indulges in innumerable activities. He still gives a course at Yale University, to which he formerly gave all of his time as Professor of English. He writes essays, book reviews and, on special occasions, novels. He is an editorial advisor for Harper Brothers. He lectures-and doubtless does many other things of which a former pupil of his does not know...
...also a good listener. He has never allowed his academic knowledge to interfere with a really unusual sense of journalism; but he has never allowed journalism to run away with his sense of true criticism, based upon his academic training. Perhaps he can be rated as our only academic journalist. His admirations are sometimes odd considering his background. He has praised Sherwood Anderson and found reason to admire Black Oxen...
...Author. Journalist, editor, novelist, short story writer, playwright, philanthropist, essayist - Theodore Dreiser has been each in turn. He entered newspaper work at the age of 21. After a few months on the Chicago Daily Globe, he became dramatic editor and traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and subsequently traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. He was for some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator...