Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James True is an aging white-thatched journalist who has been puttering around Washington for two decades. For years he has furnished "confidential letters" and "inside information" to those whose ignorance about Washington was matched only by their curiosity concerning Capital affairs. From his office in the National Press Building, James True has of late been operating two obscure enterprises known as James True Associates and America First, Inc., whose main activity is the distribution of inflammatory anti-Semitic literature. Last week this little-known pamphleteer popped into the news when he inadvertently furnished a Leftist weekly with...
Newest Soviet word to be endowed with pointed meaning is "culture." To attain such "culture," Russian comrades are now strongly urged by their Dictator to become neater in dress, mind and habits. Last week a prominent Soviet journalist who had just been received in the Kremlin told one of the few off-the-record stories about Stalin to get by the censor...
...Dictator, noting a button off his Bolshevik caller's shirt, pointed out the deficiency with bantering reproof: "So, Comrade, you call yourself a cultured man!" Cracked back the Soviet journalist, according to his story: "It is easier to buy a tractor in Russia than to buy a button...
...clock one morning last week the world's most amazing mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, was safely and uneventfully delivered of her twelfth child, her fourth son. On the previous afternoon she received a journalist with reluctance saying: "Having a child is such a personal, such a sacred thing. That's why I can hardly bear to talk for publication about the event before it happens. That's why I have been a shut-in for so long. You have been here five weeks, and you have seen for yourself how tourist cars lined the driveway between...
...would be glad if you would correct the statement made on p. 19 in TIME, June 8, in which you describe Sir Percival Phillips, the well-known British journalist, as the correspondent of the London Daily Mail...