Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight came the first open appeal by an Englishman of international reputation for the U. S. to declare war on Germany. The pioneer was 67-year-old, liberal Journalist Henry Noel Brailsford, longtime contributor to the Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...
...candidates face to face, he called them up by telephone. He made it clear that the Big Four - Konoye, Matsuoka, Tojo, Yoshida - would run the show. For the other Cabinet posts he did not pick big names or big careers, but five efficient, willing bureaucrats, two businessmen, and one journalist turned free-lance politician...
...London and Halifax, bemonocled French Journalist André Géraud ("Pertinax"), wanted by the Petain Government for spreading false information, slipped into Manhattan last week. Asked what he thought of England's chance of fighting off a German invasion. Anglophile Géraud replied hopefully: "That they can stop the Nazis is more than wishful thinking...
When LIFE'S editors, last February, decided to publish a close-up of Negro Champion Joe Louis, they looked about for a Negro journalist to write it. The man they picked was dimple-cheeked Earl Brown, 38-year-old, Virginia-born managing editor of Harlem's weekly Amsterdam News...
...town with Wendell Willkie came the three original members of the For-Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...