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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his war job was finished, Max Ways became a writer for TIME's new International section. This return to his trade was probably as inevitable as his original decision to become a journalist. His father, Max Ways Sr., city editor of the Baltimore Herald (he gave H. L. Mencken his first reporting job), had advised against it. Said he, with a newsman's directness: "I don't want to influence your decision, but if you ever grow up to be a newspaperman I'll strangle you with my bare hands...
Eight times in the past five years, the Great Gargoyle of U.S. labor had flashed the walkout signal and his 400,000 soft coal miners had obeyed. Eight times, fighting the companies, the Government or public wrath, John L. Lewis had won most of his demands...
...decided to be just a good President for the next two years (see The Presidency). If so, he could act with complete freedom and courage. In this battle, Harry Truman unquestionably had the people behind him. He had read the election returns. It remained to be seen whether John L. had also...
Principal B. L. Hale had sought teachers from all over the state, found few interested in a job which required four years of college and five years' teaching experience-paid only $149 a month. One volunteer hired to teach English had found that he was expected to teach home economics. What worried the students was the danger that state education officials would refuse diploma credits in subjects for which teachers were unavailable. For two days the kids picketed the school, carried signs: "We Want Teachers," "Seniors Want to Graduate...
This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...