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In 1955, she was assigned to cover the United States Department of Justice. Later in the decade, and in the early fifties, she wrote UP's Names in the News column, for which she interviewed numerous Washington celebrities. Her first assignments focused her on societal issues, women's news and celebrity profiles. Thomas joined United Press in 1943 and reported on women's topics for its radio wire service. After eight months at the paper, she joined with her colleagues in a strike action and was fired. Her first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News. She enrolled at Wayne University in Detroit, receiving a bachelor's degree in English in 1942, as the school did not yet offer a degree in journalism. Thomas attended Detroit Public Schools, and decided to become a journalist while attending Eastern High School. She was a member of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. She also said that in Detroit in the 1920s, she came home crying from school, "They wanted to make you feel you weren't 'American'. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. Of her experience growing up, Thomas said: Thomas was raised mainly in Detroit, Michigan, where her family moved when she was four years old, and where her father ran a grocery store. at Ellis Island, and that her parents could neither read nor write. Thomas said her father's surname, "Antonious", was anglicized to "Thomas" when he entered the U.S.
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4.1 2010 speech and comments about Jews and Zionistsīorn in Winchester, Kentucky, Thomas was the seventh of the nine children of George and Mary (Rowady) Thomas, immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon (then part of the Ottoman Empire).She then served as an opinion columnist for the Falls Church News-Press until February 2012. Thomas retired from Hearst Newspapers on June 7, 2010, following controversial remarks she made about Israel, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and potentially Israeli Jews in an impromptu, unstructured amateur short interview when solicited for "any comments on Israel," she replied that "tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," leading to multiple accusations of antisemitism. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do (2009). She wrote six books her last (with co-author Craig Crawford) was Listen Up, Mr. Thomas was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association and the first female member of the Gridiron Club. She then served as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House. Thomas worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. presidents-from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps.