Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were crowds and there was noise when the Brown Derby's train, coming from Albany, stopped at Springfield. Editor Waldo Cook, 63, of the Springfield Republican, said he had never seen anything like it in all his many and much observing years. At Worcester, the people and the noise were again one flesh. But at Boston, the people and the noise were such a People and such a Noise as no ecstasy had ever before sublimated. Journalistically recordable fact was of little importance, save as the finite is important in the infinite. Recorded fact was as follows...
...bringer-forth of the new Goddess is Novelist Gilbert Frankau. He is a militant chappie, who when lecturing to U. S. women's clubs (TIME, May 31, 1926) often alluded to his gallant War record. Today, as Editor of Britannia, he has the potent backing of Inveresk Pulp & Paper Ltd., a shrewd firm which sells its product to the public direct, by the stratagem of owning the London Daily Chronicle and such famed magazines as the Tatler, Bystander, Graphic, Sphere?and now Britannia...
...potent indeed is Britannia's backing that Editor Frankau has declared: "There is no limit to the money we are able to spend! It cuts no ice in an undertaking of this size. This paper is going to reflect the new spirit of England?the business England of today. They may call Britannia a 'jingo weekly' if they like! After all patriotism is the biggest factor in any successful endeavor. The idea is that everything going into Britannia, from machinery to brains will be all British...
After adding that he himself would contribute a "fighting editorial" to each weekly issue of Britannia, Editor Frankau bristled in conclusion...
Readers of the Christian Science Monitor, who have grown to trust the judgment and admire the style of its Contributing Editor, Willis J. Abbot, gaped aghast at what he had cabled to London as correspondent for Britannia...