Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What am I supposed to have done?' I demanded. The commissar quelled me with a glance. 'I'm asking the questions,' he said . . . thy name, birthplace . . . How many times in the U.S.S.R.? Over what frontiers? . . . Why should any American go back & forth to the U.S.S.R. except for subversive reasons? He had no concept of the life of a journalist...
...first, President Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation...
...audience in San Francisco's huge, hangarlike Civic Auditorium was in fine fettle. Even Master of Ceremonies John Charles Thomas couldn't resist getting into the act. "I'm glad to see such a crowd," he roared. "Word must have got around that I won't sing tonight...
Then Baritone Thomas ran off a raffle (Banker L. M. Giannini's wife won a radio) that helped put $49,000 into the orchestra's treasury...
Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...