Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council for Democracy headed by Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government, is sponsoring a unity meeting in New York City tonight with Alf M. Landon and Dorothy Thompson as headline speakers to coordinate the two political parties behind the national policy...
Died. Dr. Holland Thompson, 67, retired history professor at the College of the City of New York, author of books on his native South, editor of the Book of Knowledge; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...evidence of a press "dictatorship" Boss Flynn cited a column by Dorothy Thompson (declaring that the Rome-Berlin Axis hopes for a Roosevelt defeat), which the New York Herald Tribune dropped (TIME...
Quick to defend its editorial freedom was the Herald Tribune. Recalling that it had printed another Thompson column the week before, endorsing Roosevelt, the Herald Tribune declared that last week's article was "misleading" by itself, had been "withheld . . . pending the full development of Miss Thompson's views." Two days later the Herald Tribune duly printed the missing column...
General Disciplined. Dorothy Thompson was not the only columnist who lost a column last week. On registration day, as 17,000,000 might-be soldiers lined up for the draft, red-nosed, irascible General Hugh Samuel Johnson (who managed the last U. S. draft in World War I) sent out a column in which he said that Conscription Chief Dr. Clarence Addison Dykstra had turned up "on the rolls of the Dies Committee, all tangled up with the heads of Communist organizations," accused General Oliver P. Echols of overstepping his authority in rejecting Captain Elliott Roosevelt's resignation (TIME...