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Dorothy Thompson

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The Resume

    (July 9, 1893-January 30, 1961)
    Born in Lancaster, New York
    Journalist and radio broadcaster
    Reporter for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the New York Post, the New York Herald Tribune, and Ladies' Home Journal
    Author of the books 'The New Russia,' 'I Saw Hitler,' 'Listen Hans,' and 'The Courage to Be Happy'

Why she might be annoying:

    She married three times.
    One of her husbands was Sinclair Lewis.
    She was a smoker.
    She did not get along with her stepmother.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She supported women's suffrage.
    She was an opponent of Nazism.
    She was the first American journalist kicked out of Nazi Germany because of her reporting (1934).
    She also criticized Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing plan.
    She was declared by Time magazine to be the second most important woman after Eleanor Roosevelt.
    She was one of the few female journalists of her day.
    She inspired Katharine Hepburn's character in 'Woman of the Year.'

Credit: Truffle


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 162 Votes: 74.69% Annoying