Word: journals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 20,000 state employees to work and vote for him in the county and state conventions-or lose their jobs. "Not since Huey Long bulldozed his way to power in Louisiana has any man used such Gestapo-like tactics to gain a political goal," fumed the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Happy and his cohorts have drawn the line at nothing...
...Columbia's Carl William Ackerman, 66, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, which has turned out such noted news and magazine men as Lester Markel of the New York Times, Co-Editor Bruce Gould of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Columnist George Sokolsky. A graduate of the school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter...
...lengthy article in his party journal Hondo Operaio, Nenni called the Khrushchev speech "the gravest and most dramatic document in the Communist literature of the world." Through most of his article Nenni refers to Khrushchev as "K," as though he were a symbolic figure in a Kafka fantasy. "From the revelations of K," says Nenni, "we learn that the guest of the Kremlin appears to have been practically a maniac who, like the figure of the dictator in which Charlie Chaplin portrayed Hitler, 'drew plans on a map of the world.' K cannot contain his laughter...
...Aminophylline, a valuable drug for treatment of asthma, can be dangerous when given by mouth or intravenously. For convenience, many doctors have taken to giving it to children in rectal suppositories, but this too can be hazardous, warned Detroit's Dr. Anthony C. Nolke. In the A.M.A. Journal he reported 21 cases of severe illness (vomiting, raging thirst and maniacal agitation) and four deaths from...
Tale of the Tub. In Wolverhampton, England, Dr. Sidney C. Dyke blamed Britain's threatened water shortage on "the cult of the domestic bath," wrote to the British -Medical Journal: "It is an obvious fallacy that frequent immersion in hot water has any hygienic value whatsoever. Its appeal is purely sensuous...