Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last of a generation: a personal journalist with more power in his own country than Dana, Greeley and Watterson had had in theirs. For 42 years in the Free Press he fought fiercely for the things he believed in: the survival of the individual, free trade, a liberal British Commonwealth, the League of Nations. At the end, a tired old lion of a man, he knew, as Canada did, that he had influenced the thinking of an Empire...
Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
...British Empire Parliamentary Association (800 M.P.s and peers) laid back its ears and bayed last week. What set them off was a letter, written by Newscaster John Hughes, of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, to his father a London journalist. The letter said that OWI and associated U.S. agencies had virtually monopolized the Australian radio. Wrote young Hughes...
When the war began, Olga Dedier was a dark-haired girl with a medical degree and a passion for skiing. She worked in Belgrade's anti-Fascist youth movement, often made flapjacks for her journalist husband Vladimir, who learned to like them in America. In the war's first year she bore a daughter, Militsa...
...Timesman Adolph Simon Ochs. Said Princeton President Harold Willis Dodds last week: "When Jefferson said, 'Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe,' he voiced a belief that today has greater meaning. . . . This . . . was also the lifelong conviction of the great journalist . . . Adolph S. Ochs, [who] also advanced the idea of a responsible press. It is . . . appropriate that a university dedicated to free inquiry, aided by a free and responsible newspaper, should present . . . the complete writings of the man who swore 'eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind...