Word: reuben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly illustrating the angel-devil attitude of "The New Student" is a short, hard-hitting, and forced broadside by Reuben Hersh called "The Liberal's Dilemma." It states the thesis that both major political parties, whatever they profess, are working hand-in-hand to further the interests of militarists and monopolists at home and abroad. This position is dwelt on at greater length by the editors in an article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression...
...Pulitzer Prize once went to a pint-sized reporter who was small enough to crawl into a cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...
...Reuben P. Snodgrass, pilot of the Flying Automobile (TIME, Nov. 4), ran out of gas over Chula Vista, Calif, and landed in a mud flat. Snodgrass was unhurt, but the newfangled contraption was wrecked...
Linden was predominantly Protestant and officially dry, but the Massasoit House lay conveniently over the town line in wet Revere. Paul, who established a lifelong regard for alcohol in his teens, speaks with romantic awe of the Massasoit House crowd, which included his Uncle Reuben. They were kindly, lovable, generous, liberal, fair, colorful and manly...
Last week Hollenbeck glowed over the New Yorker for "one of the best jobs of journalism about journalism we've ever seen": a three-part profile of Reuben Maury, who writes editorials "on both sides of a question with apparent conviction" for both the Daily News and Collier's. Then Hollenbeck nipped at a cartoonist for picturing a major general with only one star...