Word: guardians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's independent Economist wrote icily: "Fustian and bromide . . . [The program] will cause some stirrings in the Socialist graveyards ..." The Liberal Manchester Guardian sniffed: "Skillful patchwork . . . but the triumphant Socialist spirit has evaporated...
Died. John Russell Scott, 69, publisher (1905-49) and managing director (1932-47) of Britain's famed liberal daily newspaper, the Manchester Guardian (circ. 160,000); of a heart ailment, in Manchester, England...
...withTate Director John Rothenstein-hanging was too good for most of the Chantreys. With Rothenstein they agreed that over the past 70 years of Chantrey buying, the Royal Academy selection committees had picked a high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep...
Neither the London Times nor the Manchester Guardian had sacrificed any of their dignity or respectability to capture new circulation, but both had made gains. The Times was up about 30,000, to 270,000, the Guardian up 13,000, to 150,000. But not all the faces in Fleet Street were smiling. The News Chronicle, which had also refused sensationalism for better news coverage, had dropped 30,000 readers, chiefly to the Times and the Guardian. Labor's official Daily Herald had slumped about...
Judge Silbert found out what he had done last week in the Press story under an eight-column, Page One banner: FAKE CASE PROVES DIVORCE EASY. Wrote Reporter Hammer: "I believe [Judge Silbert] would have signed the paper if it appointed me President Truman's guardian." The Press followed up his story with a front-page editorial condemning "assembly line" justice...