Word: nationalizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think Chairman Mao has come closer to a utopia than any Western nation...
...journalism. He joined the Boston American as a reporter, and later moved to the Evening Herald and then the Traveler. In 1917 he became managing editor of the New York Tribune, and, after a hitch with the Field Artillery Corps in Europe, he went to Washington to manage the Nation...
Gruening's years with the Nation in the early twenties came at an exciting time. The magazine under Gruening battled against the power monopolies and gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, and for Irish Independence and American recognition of the revolutionary regime in Mexico. Those years are still very much alive in Gruening's memory, and his descriptions of the Nation's crusades of that era come rapid and flowing...
After leaving the Nation in 1923, Gruening continued to write, producing two major books on the power industry and on Mexico. He returned to journalism briefly with the New York Post in 1932 and 1933, but with the election of Roosevelt, Gruening entered public service. He was appointed advisor to the U.S. delegation to the Seventh Inter-American Conference in 1933, and the following year became Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of the Interior. During the next five years Gruening was in charge of the American aid and development program in Puerto Rico...
...glance at comparative times in also discouraging. In the latest weekly top time list released by Swimming World Magazine. Eli swimmers led the nation in six events, were second in two more, and had four other top-ten clockings. Only a handful of performances by Harvard swimmers have earned mention...