Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monarchists and make no secret of it. What does Mussolini think about that? ... It is all very dangerous. No one in England yet realizes, 1 imagine, the strength of the forces gathering around this cockpit of the Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later the Habsburg restoration talk was taken up by Czechoslovakia's eternal Foreign Minister, Eduard Benes. Said he: "The Habsburgs cannot be separated from their history, and although they...
...Ninth Guest (Columbia). The luxurious penthouse in this picture is even more sinister than most attic apartments in the cinema. Upon their arrival the guests (a college president, an instructor whom he has discharged, a politician, a banker, a journalist and assorted women) cannot find their host. Presently a voice in the radio informs them that the doors are charged with death-dealing electricity, that there are cocktails in the kitchen and poison on the mantelpiece, that they will all be lucky to get out alive. The oldest woman present commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social...
...write sketches of London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick...
Died, John Alden, 73, journalist, versemaker, gth direct descendant of the Mayflower's John Alden; in Brooklyn. For the Brooklyn Daily Eagle he wrote 10,928 poems which appeared in an unbroken daily series...
...blame a man who, fearing for the future of his country, tries to spread the news of her grave peril. But it becomes a little wearying to find the eminent journalist, Mark Sullivan, spawning article after article with but one theme: that the Administration has two wings of opinion, one right, one left; that the Right has a monopoly over the good, the true, the beautiful but is lax in asserting its eminence; and that the Left is composed of young radical professors who combine fluttery, unsound minds with amazing, sinister shrewdness in hypnotizing the President. It appears that...