Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council after the War, then President of Carnegie Corporation. Only those grown very old in the service of Yale and Education were aware that James Rowland Angell was the grandson of one college president, Brown's Alexis Caswell (1868-72), and the son of an even more celebrated journalist, diplomat and pedagog, Dr. James Burrill Angell, for 38 years President of the University of Michigan...
Thomas S. Lamont, Morgan partner and Harvard graduate, will take part in the discussion at the Banking Table. Herbert Bayward Swope, prominent journalist, author, and public servant, will preside at the final banquet. Louis Domeratzky of the Bureau of Foreign Trade, will take part in the discussion at the Foreign Trade Table...
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution...
...courage in that matter, he died a Catholic. Having made that point-blank statement, perhaps I had better add that I will not enter into any controversy on the matter. But I have direct, authentic reliable inside information on the matter which I could not as a journalist obtain permission to publish. But you may put it down as a fact-Edward VII died a Catholic...
Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells...