Jessica Savitch Quotes
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Savitch, Jessica. Anchorwoman. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982, p. 74.
Dodge was a hotbed of violence, gun-fighting, drinking, gambling and prostitution. At one point they had 19 saloons serving liquor for a total population of only 1200. The Governor wrote this letter to the mayor to get things under control. The mayor, also one of the town’s successful business men, was doing very well and was apposed to changing the status quo. He wrote a return letter {587195} to the mayor to get things under control. The mayor, also one of the town’s successful business men, was doing very well and was apposed to changing the status quo. He wrote this return letter trying to convince the governor to let him deal with things. Others accused him of being in cahoots with the violent element of town and an apologist for the worst elements of the community.
Another edict banned beards. The modernization worked and today Turkey is the only traditional Muslim nation that is industrialized and modern. Turkey was the first, and for a long while, the only Muslim nation in NATO.
In the quoted passage, it describes Diogenes as observing a thief being arrested in one of the religious temples by the officials of the temple. He had pilfered one of the temple treasures. Not unlike modern times, most religious organizations raised money be getting donations from the public. Some of the means of many of the religious groups are and have been of dubious morality and if used in commerce would generally be considered fraud. This quotation shows that this is not a new phenomenon nor was it limited to monotheistic religions.
Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network news broadcast alone, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS's public affairs documentary program Frontline from its January 1983 debut until her death in an automobile accident later that year.
