Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II began, German-born George Viereck again peddled ideology for the Fatherland and profit. A naturalized U.S. citizen, registered in Washington as a German-paid "author and journalist," he had a legal peddler's license, drew down more than $100,000 for lauding Adolf Hitler and excoriating the British. Still confident that there was no "infallible safeguard" against propaganda, he said: "I have always regarded it almost a consecration to interpret the land of my fathers to the land of my children...
...jury did not think this work of "consecration" was legitimate work for a U.S. "author and journalist." Found guilty, facing six years in prison and a $3,000 fine, George Viereck had run up against one infallible safeguard he had not reckoned with: jail...
...Newport, the Vanderbilts became royal entertainers of royalty (Grand Duke Boris of Russia once exclaimed: "I have never dreamed of such luxury. Is this really America, or have I landed on an enchanted island? ... It is like walking on gold."). New titular head of the Vanderbilt family: thrice-married Journalist Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 43 (Farewell to Fifth Avenue, Park Avenue, Palm Beach...
...economy-minded journalist, John Patric, had an even better idea. He had lived in China, knew that Chinese doctors were so short of gauze that they were using paper as a substitute. He visited a nearby plant, persuaded its officials that soft bundles of stockings would make good packing for planes, would serve a useful purpose at the other end of the line...
...Editors of Truth. The U.S. knew little about Archibald MacLeish, Illinois-born 49-year-old journalist, who studied at Harvard to be a lawyer, was so highly regarded that men thought he might some day be the hope of the Boston bar. But at Yale MacLeish had begun to write poetry. He left the law, went to Paris, saw the town and the world much as other American expatriates. Returning, he became a writer-editor of FORTUNE in 1930. As a general journalist he was superb. When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor, and Americans turned to their reference works...