Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...female member of the British aristocracy who has been living with an insane exiled Grand Duke actually manages to blow her brains out. The rest, gigolos, rich nymphomaniacs, Fascist financiers, drunks, drift on toward perdition, a fate from which at the last moment a clean young U. S. newspaperman manages to save a clean young U. S. millionairess. De Luxe was first announced several years ago for production by the Provincetown Theatre as the sole work of Louis Bromfield who has lately been making a desperate assault on the U. S. Theatre. His Times Have Changed, an adaptation from...
...best essays for the ideas it expresses is entitled "After Religion, What?" by Frank Snowden Hopkins, a newspaperman. "The only philosophy," he says, which most members of the younger generation today can accept, "is one which is agnostic in its metaphysics, yet which stresses the faith of the human spirit in its own capabilities. It must be in short, a rational and purposeful philosophy, a creation of the human intelligence, a philosophy which, admitting all the limitations of the mortal mind, refuses to compromise with medieval superstitions and wishful self deceptions...
...middle-aged newspaperman who came to Hollywood, took up flying, I found $28 per $1,000 per annum lowest aviation death rate obtainable from American insurance companies; Lloyd's have just insured...
...himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once but the parents separated them until Upton could make enough to support his wife. Not until 1903 did the young Sinclairs set up housekeeping-in a tent in a grove of trees outside Princeton...
...Emil Hurja, onetime newspaperman who became a Farley assistant in 1932, was later put into the Interior Department to compensate for Mr. Ickes' lack of political savoir faire, and last March was moved to the Democratic National Committee, Boss Farley has an assistant after his own heart. Mr. Hurja writes the PMG's speeches, examines the political credentials of all candidates. The first question is: "Is he a Roosevelt-before-Chicago man?"; the second: "Is he endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives...