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...Washington last week, the American Society of Newspaper Editors at its annual convention selected Fred Fuller Shedd (Philadelphia Bulletin'), president; Alfred H. Kirchhofer (Buffalo evening News), secretary; E. S. Beck (Chicago Tribune), treasurer; Paul Bellamy (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Groves Patterson (Toledo Blade), vice presidents...
...compete? Because Publisher Thomason was for nine years vice president and general manager of the Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published) hang pictures of Col. McCormick, his managing editor Edward S. Beck, his old time circulation wrangler Max Annenberg, now publisher of the Patterson-McCormick tabloid Detroit Mirror. Sentiment? He and McCormick were classmates in the law school of Northwestern University, law partners for many years thereafter. As a Tribune executive he was reputedly the "highest paid man in the newspaper business...
...roll was being called on the first clear-cut issue of the 18th Amendment since its original passage Dec. 18, 1917 by a vote of 282-to-128. A parliamentary petition by 145 Wets had forced this question: Shall the House take up a resolution by Pennsylvania's Beck and Maryland's Linthicum to amend the Constitution for the return of liquor control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing...
Though the Drys, as was expected, defeated the Beck-Linthicum resolution, the Wets were jubilant at making a better showing than they anticipated. They had planted a large and solid milestone from which to measure their future progress...
...other five; and the first year it had the distinction of being a decided favorite. Among seven Houses one absolute favorite will never exist but when Lowell and Dunster first opened the latter had by far the larger list of applicants. Indeed, Mr. Greenough had the College at his Beck and call. That first year advantage was, fortunately, largely wiped out when the other Houses came into existence and the prestige gained then has really hindered rather than aided Dunster in the race for members...