Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Church of East Liberty, Pa. the Mellon Church (TIME, April 28). In quite another sense, it is my grandfather's church. He was its first pastor and preached there for 40 years. The "call" came when he was 22 and scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank a glass of milk...
...Paris the French Government tacitly admitted that action on the plan will be blocked by Italy for some time. "In violent contrast to M. Briand's peaceful proposal," said the semiofficial Journal des Debats "the most warlike harangue ever heard in time of peace during this century has just been uttered" by Mussolini...
What, then, must the staff of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal have felt last week if they read their publisher's full-page advertisement in Printers' Ink weekly headed: "We agree with Mr. Collins"? The copy quoted Kenneth Collins, publicity director of R. H. Macy & Co., saying: "Today the name 'newspaper' is a misnomer. The great metropolitan dailies are, in reality, magazines with news value added...
...smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League of Nations-devoted an issue to denouncing its enemies after the Versailles Treaty and the defeat...
...Emily Hardy married Thomas Hardy in February 1914, 16 months after the death of the first Mrs. Hardy. Younger than her husband, she devoted herself to his care, his work, his friends; assiduously noted his every thought and move; be came his female Boswell. Amply aided by the Hardy journal and scores of letters, this book forms the second part of a biography begun with The Early Life of Thomas Hardy (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929), covers the period from 1892 until his death...