Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboriously engaged in figuring out the wealth of new King Edward as a matter of national and imperial interest are several British journalist-economists. In a preliminary way they were about ready last week to agree that, after all deductions of whatever kind, the actual fortune of His Majesty is piling up ceaselessly at the rate of some $2,000 per day. This is capital increase, not mere income...
Nevertheless last week's scoop by Chairman Howard was of the first magnitude. After his even more difficult feat three years ago in becoming the first journalist received by the Japanese Emperor since the accession of His Majesty, Roy Howard had to give his word not to quote one word of what the Son-of-Heaven said (TIME, July 3, 1933). Last week the Soviet Government not only permitted quotes but supplied Mr. Howard with a translation of what Joseph Stalin had said in Russian, this interview having been conducted through brilliant, saturnine Constantine Umansky as interpreter. For five...
...quality to writing that men would have to go to the moon to find. At their worst, they are poor imitations of he-hacks; at their best they are in a class by themselves. Among English women writers, Rebecca West (Cecily Fairfield Andrews) has ranked creditably. As a journalist of parts, she has written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats...
DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3 ). Biography of Czechoslovakia's Grand Old Man, Thomas G. Masaryk, by the prolific German journalist-biographer...
Next week Dr. Heinrich Bruening will continue the crusade that the Irish journalist began in 1865. The former German chancellor's history, his faith in a democratic government for Germany, and his detest of "emotional politics" that give rise to dictatorship, well fit him for his task. The Godkin spirit flourishes at the age of seventy...