Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Mitchell plays a fast game. . . . Secretary of Agriculture Hyde disports himself creditably. . . . The President is a lusty player. His specialty is catching high ones and throwing them in hard-to-get returns. . . . Dr. Boone, the President's physician, is small, dark, quick as a flash. . . . Mark Sullivan, journalist, plays a hard game." Author of the article: William Atherton Du Puy, press agent of Dr. Wilbur's Interior Department...
...Brien began life as a low-tariff Democrat. Grover Cleveland plucked him from the Boston Transcript office for a private secretary upon his second presidential nomination in 1892, kept him on at the White House until 1895. The Bryan nomination of 1896 turned Mr. O'Brien Republican. A journalist for 34 years, he was Washington correspondent for the Boston Transcript, then its editor and later, until his retirement in 1928, editor & publisher of the Boston Herald. With the enthusiasm of a convert, he can be counted on by the G.0.P. to keep all tariff rates as high as possible...
Died. Patrick Francis Murphy, 72, president of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), father-in-law of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey (British journalist, cousin to Author Lytton Strachey) ; famed after-dinner speaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tall, elegantly dressed, Speaker Murphy was featured at dinners of The Lambs and Manhattan Clubs, at July 4 meetings of U. S. residents in Paris and London. Some Murphyisms...
...where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil his life, there occurs the scene in which Elissa Landi, imprisoned in the Baron's chambers, is informed by him that "we must...
Upshot of the surgeon-journalist conference on cancer was that the surgeons would find a writer who knows medicine or (more difficult) a doctor who knows journalism to bombard the public with cancer warnings...