Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some foolish editor in search of a feature suggested me as Vice President and sent a young woman to ask me about it. I scouted the whole idea as ridiculous and said I objected to belittling women in politics by such proposals. Asked if I did not think I was fitted to be Vice President, I said, 'No,' and that nothing is worse than for a person to be in a position for which he is not fit. Asked if I did not think I was as fit as Senator Curtis, I said I did not think...
Smith v. White. In Kansas, Editor William Allen White of 'the Emporia Gazette exercised his pen and his tongue to tell Kansans exactly how many times Nominee Smith had voted in the interests of the saloon, the gambling den, the bawdy house. Nominee Smith quickly recognized Editor White's source of information to be one Rev. O. R. Miller, a pamphleteer whom the Nominee denounced as "a parasite living on the people of the State of New York ... an 18-carat professional faker...
...editor of the Overland Mail is Alfred Pittman, no near relation of Senator Key Pittman of Nevada...
Elected. Mrs. Agnes Brown Leach, wife of Editor Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum, trustee of the American College for Girls in Constantinople, executive committeewoman of the Foreign Policy Association, board member of the Henry Street (Manhattan) Settlement; to succeed Marion Reilly as a member of the directorate of Bryn Mawr College...
Died. Jack Bethea, 40, editor of the Birmingham, Ala., Post (Scripps-Howard); by suicide; in Birmingham...