Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white-haired lady who died suddenly last week at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., aged 83, was the only daughter of William Lloyd Garrison, the Boston man by whose eloquence and persistence the Abolition movement attained national proportions before the Civil War. Today her son, Oswald Garrison Villard, is editor of the Nation, liberal weekly...
...carry on his mother's and grandfather's tradition, the Nation's editor has two sons, Henry Hilgard Villard, 17, entering Yale this autumn and another, Oswald Garrison Villard, 11. Two other grandsons, sons of Harold Garrison Villard, a onetime editor of the Nautical Gazette have already departed the usual paths of liberals. One, Henry Villard, is in the U. S. Diplomatic Corps; the other, Vincent Villard is a white-collar man in a Manhattan bank...
...awful to behold, last week, was the indignation of M. Aristotle Tsiflakos, Editor of the Royalist news organ Apogevmotini ("Afternoon News"), who had believed, until last month, with other foes of Venizelos that the founder of the present Greek Republic was definitely retired and pass...
...existed in 1871 to extract the first strong utterances of the Omaha Bee. Staunchly Republican, the Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...