Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times (pro-Davis), in a leading editorial, gave Mr. Davis credit for making, on the whole, what was a sound speech and a good proposal. Mr. Dawes and the honest Times must divide the credit...
...Times and its owner, Adolph Ochs, get double credit-once for being fair in their news and a second time for having staunchly supported a man to a point at which they may support him in an even greater arena, the battlefield of a Presidential campaign...
Most of the credit goes to Mr. Ochs. He is a very modest man who keeps himself far in the background, yet he is the power which has made the Times go round. "I am no genius," he explains. "All one needs is common business sense, common editorial sense, and a common sense of responsibility." But anyone who glances at a tabloid career of the man whose greatest achievement is the building of the Times can hardly avoid raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking "No genius...
...fortnight ago the New York Herald-Tribune had a great "beat." The headline ran: "New Yorkers Drink Sumptuously on 17,000-Ton Floating Cafe at Anchor Fifteen Miles off Fire Island" (TIME, Aug. 25, NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Other newspapers echoed the story 24 hours later, being careful to credit the Herald-Tribune with its origin. Many readers of these other newspapers felt that the credit had been given in sincere admiration for so great a "beat,"-credit where credit...
...there was more than admiration between the scrupulous credit lines. There was caution as well, lest the great "beat" were not true. Indeed the more sophisticated of Manhattan's dailies- The News (gum-chewers' sheetlet) and the great New York World, either through intuition or spectacular scepticism, maintained the attitude from the first that the cafe ship was a dream ship...