Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nieman of Milwaukee will probably be presented for decision this week. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin is expected to hear the case of the Nieman bequest, appealed from the Milwaukee County Court, in which the widow of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the "Milwaukee Journal" and crusading journalist of the last half century, left Harvard an estate of approximately five million dollars to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism...
...will was admitted to probate in the county court by Judge Michael S. Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift...
Many an irrepressible politician, journalist and poll taker last week risked a flunking mark by guessing the answers to the Presidential election before they were officially available. Some of the guesses...
DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT-John I. B. McCulloch-Putnam ($3). A seasoned U. S. honeymooner in the Balkans since 1934 amateur Journalist McCulloch recalls his experiences in a chatty omnibus devoted to his sightseeing, anecdotes of political figures, his interviews with King Boris, the late Venizelos, Dowager Queen Marie...
...LESS ambitious a middle-westerner is Wisconsin's and Sigma Nu's Nick Grinde. Nick was a hard-working journalist and Sigma Delta pledge at Wisconsin, but his work in the Union shows there made him set his mind on one single thing, motion pictures. In 1915 Grinde cooled his heels waiting to see a famous director to ask him for a job. He gave up waiting and took to the greasepaint road as Chic Sale's publicity manager. Years later Nick was directing Joan Crawford in a picture. One of the extras was the once-famous director. Grinde...