Word: publishable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway's labor government as full of "imperialist quislings...
Explained the U.S. publisher, who has sold 425,000 copies of Anna Karenina in the past year: "It was impossible to publish Anna Karenina at its full length in our format, and we felt that a condensed version would be better than none at all. The text was kept in the author's own words . . ." But there would be no market for such an enterprise in Russia. The Literary Gazette said: "With wrath and indignation the reader throws aside this latest lampoon cooked by American literary gangsters who have lost all proportions in their savagery and ignorance...
...before, Kung had written a long, angry editorial accusing retired President Chiang Kai-shek of "manipulating" the Chinese government from "behind the screen." Unless Chiang "goes abroad," wrote Kung, "the nation and the people will be ruined." Some Chinese had said this privately; no other editor had dared to publish it. For three days Kung sat in prison. Released, he promptly wrote an editorial defiance of his late captors ("I am always in the literary prison...
...Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...
...editor credited with developing more prominent writers than any other editor of his generation; after long illness; in Goshen, N.Y. A partner (with Samuel S. McClure) in one of the first U.S. newspaper syndicates (1886), Phillips hired Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain * among his first contributors, later helped publish and manage McClure's Magazine, founded the American Magazine...