Word: sentinel
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Immediately following the debate the Chairman rushed about gathering the three ballots. Meanwhile the debaters stuffed quote cards into their briefcases and prepared to make a hasty departure. A local speech instructor and the Information Director of the pro-McCarthy Sentinel voted against the Harvard team's conclusion to outnumber the debate coach from a neighboring town who cast an affirmative ballot. The Harvard men appeared more relaxed when the doors to the auditorium were unlocked and the crowd began to pour out. As the photographers snapped flash shots the Marquette debate coach rushed up to the rostrum...
...topic, "Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," and won a two to one verdict over the College team. Judges for the event, which was hold in Milwaukee, were two high school debate coaches and a columnist from the strongly pro-McCarthy Milwaukee Sentinel...
When Harry Grant arrived in 1916 in the midst of the battle, the Journal was thriving on controversy, with a circulation of 97,598, though still far behind the Sentinel (where Nieman had been managing editor). Three years after Grant joined the staff as business manager, Nieman's health failed and Grant became publisher. Though Nieman lived until 1935, Grant has run the paper since...
Bill Howland was speaking with a veteran's authority of 38 years in the newsgathering business (Nashville Tennessean and Banner, Atlanta Journal, Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel). A New York State Yankee by birth and a graduate of Princeton, Howland has spent his professional life in the South. His first job was on the Nashville Tennessean, and he nearly lost it when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue...
...touched off a series of protest from the city's other paper, the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "If works of art are to be judged by the public beliefs and public morals of their creators," the News-Sentinel said, "many of the world's masterpieces would have to be tossed into the garbage can." Letters to the editor from all over the state blasted the Legion for its part in the ban. One called them "our local commissars of culture...