Word: maynard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contemplating education as an important field, many a citizen might hail the feat of Robert Maynard Hutchins, who became president of one of the country's hugest universities...
...scene changes to Fleet Street; young Bolt has got a job on a newspaper, finds journalism's ways at first rich and strange. Then we go with his friend Maynard, a traveling correspondent, to Novobambia, fever-ridden jungle country whose mineral riches the chancellories of Europe are scheming to keep away from each other. Even out here the threat of war is heavy in the air. When Maynard comes home he is sent off to Ireland, which seems on the verge of rebellion; but when a shot is fired in a little Balkan town the journalists hurry home...