Word: edd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt was not going to make the mistake Curley had made as governor and appoint pure politicians to the important post in the government. Curley, indignant as he was, turned the Polish offer down with a very graceful letter in which he cited his duty to the city. An edd sidelight was that the Boston Transcript, anti-Curley as it was, came out strongly for the mayor to accept the Polish job; the editors figured that that was the easiest way to get him out of Boston...
...charge of retrenching was hefty Edd Johnson, a veteran newsman (New York World-Telegram, Cottier's, CBS, OWI), who returned a year ago from three years as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Sun syndicate. Last summer he was hired by the New Republic for eight weeks of editorial doctoring, stayed on as managing editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some...
...Straight didn't want to fire anybody he'd had lunch with," said one staffer. Others complained that the boss kept changing his mind, kept nibbling away at his editors' powers. Said Edd Johnson: "The place was being run like a charity tea, with me as the caterer...
...completed their academic work in the summer form and had been going through a five-week program of refresher courses. Their departure leaves some 350 men in the NROTC unit at Harvard, 20-edd V-12ers who were here during the summer having been processed out of the Navy or sent to graduate school...
...right back to OWI. He told OWI Boss Elmer Davis and Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's Overseas Branch, to settle it themselves. The settlement this week: Bob Sherwood's three top men in New York-Newsman Joseph Barnes, Economist James Warburg, Editorial Chief Edd Johnson-resigned; Sherwood will go to London. This seemed a clean-out victory for Elmer Davis-his first in 20 months...