Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Twin Cities. Popular, but no handshaker, with 180 Ib. on his 6 ft. frame, he was born in Crookston, Minn., raised seed corn to pay his way through a year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch and Pioneer Press, he began writing politics, fathered three children, was an active Newspaper Guildsman (but dropped out in disgust...
...notion that "You can't understand the Oriental mind" is being dispelled by able writers and journalists of both races. Lin Yutang and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek show us China from the inside--John Gunther and Carl Crow from the outside. J.B. Powell continues to give us his important journal of opinion, the China Weekly Review, though he is on Wang's blacklist and has to have a bodyguard...
...Such a poll was taken last August by The American Press (trade journal for publishers of weekly newspapers). It showed rural weeklies' editors 63% for Willkie (about 6,449 papers to 3,725 for Roosevelt...
Three eminent Manhattan humorists-James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Stanley Walker-turned out to be contributors to Man to Man. They had once sold some pieces (sample title: How to Poker) to a naughty little journal called For Men formerly published by Country Press. Fawcett editors had resurrected their pieces from the files...
...Partly exempt are the profits of mining companies, airlines. Scattered through the bill is many another exemption, qualification, abstruse gimmick. Finally, cases of "abnormalities" may be adjudicated by the Treasury's Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Since such "abnormalities" are not defined, the Wall Street Journal foresaw that corporations would pay the tax only under protest. Under such a bill, "abnormalities" will be easy for any corporation to find...