Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...senatorial examination of their policy, and on the other hand Ambassador Daniels advances the cause of socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately Mr. Daniels is not that. Socialism, the restriction of a free press, the squashing of class rights are not subjects upon which any ambassador representing the American Government...
...daily, was impressed by the man's philosophy, the "long view" of the theoretical Marxist who regarded immediate events as meaningless unless related to other events in the past and future. Friendship with Borodin, and with Sun Yat-sen's widow, helped ruin Sheean as a practicing journalist. A U. S. girl named Rayna Prohme played the dominant part in the sea-change...
Thus the New Deal added another literary light to its representatives overseas who already include: Novelist Meredith Nicholson, Minister to Paraguay; Historian William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Journalist Claude G. Bowers. Ambassador to Spain; Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh, Minister to Greece...
Four years ago Mr. Woollcott discussed that story, "the perfect specimen of folk lore," with English Journalist Valentine Williams, who testified to its recurrence in English, French and German newspapers about every six-months for the past 25 years. Nearly always it is issued from, some remote town in Eastern Europe. Two weeks after the Woollcott-Williams conversation, the same old story landed on the front page of the New York Herald Tribune as an Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, with the headline: PARENTS KILL RICH SON POSING AS A STRANGER Pole, Home After 18 Years...
...combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah sins against the omnipotent State. Tried for sedition, he is acquitted only to be killed by an enraged urban mob that believes he is hindering the coming war with Italy. The finale is fittingly ironic...