Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
...Columnist Pegler got another kind of compliment from Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...
...grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against the "tenderometer," a newfangled "diabolical machine [that] actually proposes to tell a man when his Baldwins . . . and Northern Spies are ripe enough to pick...
Readers might think that these were the nostalgic notes of country-born editorialists, trapped in the cities and hankering for the farm. But the country flavor in the Herald, the Times and the Journal was distilled by one authentic New England countryman. Long-faced Haydn S. Pearson, 47, is a hard-working naturalist who covers all outdoors, notebook in hand, as methodically as a police reporter on his beat. His nature editorials have offered vicarious trips to the countryside for city-bound readers of the Washington Star, the Newark News and the Indianapolis Star; 79 papers subscribe to his twice...
Another Patton prayer for success in battle, recently published in the Swedish Life Guard Grenadiers' regimental journal, kicked up an ecclesiastical furor. It was accompanied by an editorial praising the general's "truehearted, frank religiousness in his intercourse with...