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...teaching ability," but are more probably "liberals" of the sort whose hearts throb and cheeks flush at the thought of the persecuted communist, and who are enamored of the heroic and dangerous elements in a position which they are unable to defend logically, and which they would be too timid to defend outside of academic spheres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/13/1939 | See Source »

...typical weeklies and bi-weeklies in 30 States and found that: 1) Most of them had good business in 1938 and the early part of 1939; 2) boiler-plate and corn-cure ads are disappearing; 3) their news is ably written but editorials are either purely boosterish, overly timid or entirely lacking; 4) many a muted Walter Winchell is doing a bangup job of columning for a few hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas Meador's "Trail Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Hello, how did you like it?" he asked in a quiet, almost timid voice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...went to the tabloid Chicago Daily Times as managing editor in January 1935, after four years on the New York Daily News, and a brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shifts | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Nearest thing to a voice which U. S. Protestantism possesses is the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. That voice is often a timid stammer, since any of the 24 member churches of the F. C. of C. may secede at a hat's drop. Last week the Federal Council took a big red heckling from a Lutheran, whose church has never joined it-Professor Theodore Graebner of Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Voice | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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