Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, tough President Illas, who had won a fearsome reputation for himself in Santiago by angrily shooting a panther for misbehaving in a circus and by beating up a journalist who accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again...
...years. Even in retirement his ambling figure was familiar in the yard, and his bashful smile and warm heart won instantaneous response. To study composition in his English 5 was the ambition of nearly all undergraduates who looked forward to writing as a career, and many an author and journalist of America today is proud to be listed among the pupils of Dean Briggs...
With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
Prominent among the speakers is H.V. Kaltenborn '09, journalist and news commentator. Eagerly awaited in student circles is the announcement at the yearly banquet of members of executive and other administrative committees and the personnel man for next year. The latter will fill a newly created office in response to demands for a student contact man at the Phillips Brooks House...
...away from the fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote his book. With its structure as a sort of travel diary, the book soon becomes a lively commentary...