Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked by a journalist what he thought of the situation in Europe, King Gustavus replied: "I think Gordon Lowe should win the men's singles, and that Mile. Lenglen is certain to carry off the honors in the women's singles...
...journalist's modern problem, it would seem, is over-production. When one looks at the over-laden newsstands and magazine racks, and notes the same authors in periodical after periodical, it is scarcely to be wondered that most of the writing is make-shift and haphazard. Criticism, especially, is filling more and more space; in fact it is the proving-ground of many a young writer, and the incidental odd-jobbery of older hands at the literary game. But it is not highly paid, and since much of it is under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually...
Enthusiasm is the keynote which is found running through Lane's public life, and with it go the courage and optimism, the love of service to which his other qualities were only tributary. His motto was "Be for things", and he lived up to it enthusiastically. As a journalist, lawyer, city attorney in San Francisco, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Secretary of the Interior, Lane had a varied experience as a public servant, and he gives us the full benefit of that experience in his letters...
...Longuet is the grandson of Karl Marx, the famous Socialist; the son of a French journalist; Editor of "Le Popularie". Paris; and a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He believes that the only practical plan for the reconstruction of the devastated areas lies in the collaboration of the peoples of France and Germany, acting on the plans outlined by the Frankfort Conference in April, 1922. He has already, in his tour of the United States, spoken in New York, and addressed a large audience in Symphony Hall last evening on "Europe after the World War". In this...
...great English journalist, Frederic Harrison, was congratulated on his 90th birthday last year as "living among the third generation of his contemporaries." Men often live to be well over ninety; but it is a very rare thing to find a man so active, so vigorous, and so young-minded that it can be truly said of him that the generation of today are his contemporaries...