Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Document." President Roosevelt began the fashioning of his bomb innocuously enough last year by appointing three scholars to a committee on Administrative Management, charged with preparing a program for Government reorganization. Chairman was Louis Brownlow, 57, stubby, highbrowed, oldtime newspaperman who has held many a civic planning post, is now a University of Chicago lecturer on government and director of a coordinating agency called Public Administration Clearing House. Other members were University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing...
Fiction WARD EIGHT-Joseph F. Dinneen- Harper ($2.) Story of the rise, reign and death of an Irish political boss in Boston, written in a jerky, staccato style. The author is a Boston newspaperman who is now being threatened with suit for libel by Massachusetts' Governor James M. Curley...
...that no mercy should be shown the reporter and that he should be shown the reporter and that he should be made to leave the group immediately. Only when it was claimed that the ejection savored of Fascism and only after an earnest plea for fairness from the attending newspaperman, was he allowed to remain...
...gruff, hardbitten, Kansas-born lawyer whose poems were bitter epitaphs on the wasted lives of a small town. Carl Sandburg, cheerful, intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty of the U. S. in Slabs of the Sunburnt West...
...Personal History Vincent Sheean wrote the autobiography of a 30-year-old newspaperman who had seen and participated in some of the most momentous events of the post-War period: the pacification of the Riff in Africa, the Chinese Revolution of 1927, the German Inflation, the Allied occupation of the Rhine. The book revealed a sensitive and searching intelligence that honestly faced the dominant political issues before the modern world, contained careful expositions of Communism and Revolution, gave a general impression of intelligent inconclusiveness, of dismay before the towering threats to contemporary society. Last week Vincent Sheean followed his best...