Word: editioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighty Germans now being trained by the government to edit newspapers were tongue-lashed by Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. "I am informed that your education and abilities are far from satisfactory," he roared. "It is no excuse for you to say that, being of humble origin, your schooling was bad. Almost all the men who rule Germany today came of obscure stock. They too were not born in palaces! . . . You may imagine that I am willing to pass over the conditions among you for a couple of months, but I will...
Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
...spirit on warm nights comes an urge to see something of life. Last week it came to Professor Nathaniel Edward Griffin in his stuffy apartment near Harvard Square, Cambridge. Up to the end of the War, Dr. Griffin was assistant professor of English at Princeton. Later, when he helped edit Webster's Dictionary, he had his family to occupy him. But eight years ago he left Webster's to study and write, soon moved to Cambridge to be near the Harvard Library. There he lives alone, a tall, handsome, white-haired scholar with two sons away at school...
...years, Palmer will edit a book following the history of the Class of 1935 in a way not covered by the regular Reunion Book. However, one does not have to wait 25 years to see the information compiled, for a detailed account of the survey will be included in the Senior Class Album...
...Smith called upon Rogers in 1928 to edit the Democratic National Campaign book; and in 1933 he turned "public servant" as Deputy Administrator of the N.R.A. He also served as Moreland Commissioner to investigate the New York State Department of Labor...