Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dorothy Thompson walks the plank next Monday for deserting the Republican ship to endorse Roosevelt instead of Willkie last fall...
Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
Last week Italy ejected Chicago Daily News Correspondent John Thompson Whitaker, third able Rome representative of his paper to be told in the past 27 months he must go. Fascist officials found genial Tennessean Whitaker's dispatches "displeasing." They could not have liked much better the Daily News's general treatment of Fascist Italy and of Benito Mussolini. Il Duce was recently cartooned in the News puking over the side of a ship into the Mediterranean while the Führer rushes up with a trayful of seasickly dishes tagged "Spanish Hot Tamales, Greece, Turkey, Hungarian Goulash...
...Nearly everything is wrong with the C.C.C.," stated Miss Thompson in her speech. "Every private instinct and private enterprise has been stified.....It was and remains a vast charitable enterprise...
Preparing to battle for their experiment of a civilian-run C.C.C. camp, 1500 Harvard and Dartmouth students listened to Dorothy Thompson's attack on the management of the federal-organized camps at Hanover, Monday night...