Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year or two the Doctor was known to be very ill and when local newspaper men called they couldn't get any news. The Doctor died soon, his body was taken out of the house by night and buried or shipped away, from Freeport before any word of his death was given to the public...
Your comments on my letter about the passing of TIME (May 17) have disturbed me. Let me say in no uncertain terms that I hope for TIME'S eternal survival. It came into the drabbest field of writing (news reporting) and made it the gayest. It has done the reading public an inestimable service and deserves heartfelt appreciation...
...flippant (the judge's word) or "persnickety" (my husband's). Now they read it more frequently and with more relish, they say. But they like sugar on their grapefruit. I like salt. And I like the tang of the savory bons mots with which TIME seasons the news...
...most perplexing features of the United States Neutrality Act comes from the difficulty of deciding what is a war and what is not one. To the liberals who felt that after the bombing of Almeria President Roosevelt should have invoked the Act against Germany the news from Washington that Secretary Hull and Norman Davis dissuaded the executive from this course shows the extreme caution of the State Department...
...Yaleman born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...