Word: dewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine dailies) before many of its present readers were old enough to vote the straight Republican ticket. Today's Sun editorials, like last week's on Truman, are plotted by Speed, General Manager Edwin S. Friendly and James Craig, chief editorial writer. Young (35) President-Publisher Thomas Dewart, who inherited the paper, sits in at times. There is little argument at their conferences. "We all think alike, so it's easy," says Keats Speed...
Died. William Thompson Dewart, 68, since 1925 president of the arch-Republican New York Sun; in Manhattan. One of eleven children of a Scotch economist and unsuccessful railroad promoter, Dewart rose to the general managership of the late Frank Munsey's publishing enterprises at the age of 28. When Munsey died, Dewart came into control of the Sun, mutualized its ownership. He originated "Don't sell America short...