Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The most representative meeting of the Christian Church since the Reformation opened at Amsterdam this week. From 44 countries (six of them behind the iron curtain) and 150 denominations, 450 delegates gathered for the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Every major branch of the Christian Church was...
Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival...
Last week, in the musty old Observer office, there was hardly a ripple when a bright young man took over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor...
On two visits to Russia, one with his parents and Bernard Shaw, he had his eyes opened to the Communist side of the coin. The Soviet system did not measure up to his standards of liberty. "I was anti-Russian," he says, "even before it was fashionable to be anti...
*Whose proprietor, John Jacob Astor, is a brother of the Observer's proprietor.