Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached court, have ever been pressed against Columnist Winchell. Last week, for the first time in his professional career, he found himself confronted by a jury verdict for damages. It was caused not by any peeping into the love lives of the rich or famed but by a trivial paragraph about an all-Jewish beach club which died aborning...
...Saturday next, the Supreme Court of Germany will announce its solution of the dilemma it faces today: what to do with Torgler? Last Thursday the prosecution, with self-consciousness oozing copiously from each paragraph, demanded the death by hanging of this Communist and his alleged soulmate, Vander Lubbe, and dismissed the charges against Dmitroff, Taneff, and Popoff, the Bulgarians. This far the Nazis were willing to go in the strange realm of generosity; it would have been hopelessly crude to ask for the conviction of these last three Bolsheviks, against whom only the most insignificant evidence was ever advanced...
...time on its little hero's helpless struggles to keep his head above the flood; but Author Brunngraber's dogged attempt toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls the reader's attention. With more statistics to the squarehead paragraph than are contained in a chapter of John Dos Passos' 42nd Paralled or 1919, Author Brunngraber's complicated sum does not add up to nearly so impressive a human total. Failure though it must be rated, however, Karl and the 20th Century is significant as a 1933 advanced model...
...religion, which is unimpeachable. That he commits a number of fallacies in his eloquence does not in the least detract from his effect, for all such theses as his, both pro and con, transcend logic and are not subject to it. Still, the history in his penultimate paragraph is flatly wrong, and it is silly to say that a capitalist artist must cut himself off from the principles of true art. True art is my art; it must be your art that is false. Mr. Philbrick's meaning is only that he doesn't like capitalist art, which is quite...
...terse, six-paragraph statement to strikers at his Edgewater, N. J. plant declaring that most of their demands had already been met and promising to raise wages as soon as conditions permitted. And he added this single cryptic sentence: "Recognition of collective bargaining through representatives of the workers' own choosing is already required by the present National Industrial Recovery...