| LC control no. | n 2001128553 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Moody, Blair |
| Variant(s) | Moody, Arthur Edson Blair |
| Located | Detroit (Mich.) |
| Birth date | 1902-02-13 |
| Death date | 1954-07-20 |
| Place of birth | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Place of death | Ann Arbor (Mich.) |
| Affiliation | Moses Brown School Detroit News (Firm) United States. Congress. Senate |
| Profession or occupation | Foreign correspondents Journalists Legislators--United States |
| Found in | War on syphilis, 1937: t.p. (Blair Moody) Catalog of copyright entries, 1937: page 605 (Moody (Blair) War on syphilis, by Blair Moody and A. M. Smith; Detroit News reprints, April 15, 1937) Sen. Blair Moody (D-MI), in Chronoscope, 1951: title frame (Blair Moody, United States Senator from Michigan) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, October 21, 2013 (Moody, Arthur Edson Blair (1902-1954); a Senator from Michigan; born in New Haven, Conn., February 13, 1902; attended the public schools in Providence, R.I.; graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1922; instructor in history, Moses Brown Preparatory School, Providence, R.I., 1922-1923; moved to Detroit, Mich.; reporter covering Washington, D.C., for the Detroit News, 1923-1951; correspondent for Barron's Financial Weekly, 1934-1948 and also wrote extensively for the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell Syndicate; combat war correspondent in 1944, covering the war in Italy, Africa, the British Isles, the Middle East, and Iran; moderated a radio and television program, Meet Your Congress, 1946-1952; foreign correspondent, 1947-1948; appointed on April 22, 1951 as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Arthur H. Vandenberg and served from April 23, 1951 to November 4, 1952; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the vacancy and also for election to the full term; resumed his newspaper and radio career; died in Ann Arbor, Mich. while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, July 20, 1954) |
| Associated language | eng |
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