Word: briton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL, President of Yale University: "Briton Hadden's death is a great loss to American journalism, in which he had already made a brilliant record, giving promise of a still more brilliant future...
...HOWARD, Chairman of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers: "The death of Briton Hadden robs American journalism of one of its greatest promises. His youthful viewpoint struck a new note and a wholesome one. His co-workers will carry on the success he helped achieve, but the task will be heavier despite their determination to make good his absence from their ranks...
EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor...
FRANK R. KENT, Vice President of the Baltimore Sun: "The death of Briton Hadden is a real loss. To have conceived the idea back of TIME and to have successfully put it into effect was a constructive achievement and a public service...
...HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature: "Briton Hadden was one of the most resourceful, energetic and original editors of the younger generation. He had a great career ahead of him and a great achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily-afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic...