Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, Harry S. Toy, the squat, eagle-beaked police commissioner who has talked darkly about a "Red revolution in Michigan," said that, to get a press card, every reporter would have to 1) fill out a form listing his press experience, and 2) swear that he was not a member of "any organization affiliated with the Communist Party or Communism...
Spooks & Sneezes. In witty, talkative Walter Trohan, a member of the Washington bureau since 1934, McCormick had a successor who could ably carry on the Tribune's own kind of search for truth. In 1941, Trohan "scooped" the country on the "fact" that British agents, in Washington, were wining & wenching on Lend-Lease money (said Franklin D. Roosevelt: a dirty falsehood...
Blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff inherited $15 million from her banker father, Mortimer Schiff. But she was not content to be just a rich girl; she wanted to be a newspaper publisher. With second husband George Backer, a millionaire himself and then a member of the New York City Council, she bought the New York Post in 1939. When Publisher Backer became ill in 1942, "Dolly," who had been vice president and treasurer, took over as publisher herself...
...young member of the Philosophy Department here refused a proffered summer appointment after Washington's president Raymond B. Allen, dismissed two members of his faculty over the objections of the University Senate. That group is the schools court of appeal in cases involving academic freedom and problems of tenure...
Gieseking was never a Nazi party member, although he found it convenient to go along with the German government when the going was good. But the important point is not his polities, which are evidently reprehensible, but the question of whether the work of an artist can be considered separately from his polities. That question has been answered rather consistently by free societies in the past. The western world has taken into its culture the works of many artists whose politics were at least as vicious as those of Gieseking--Richard Wagner and Ezra Pound, to name two. If Gieseking...