Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
...eighteenth paper he had purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...
Charles Harold Berry. Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Since 1925 he has been an associate editor of the magazine "Power", and an assistant professor at Cornell University...
...compilation of the work is sponsored by the College and is being done by the CRIMSON with A. R. Sweezy '29, president of the University daily, and R. A. Stout '29, managing editor, in charge of its publication. President Lowell will write a foreword for the collection and LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former dean of Harvard College Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Dean A. C. Hanford, Ph.D. '23, W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, W. I. Nichols '26, assistant dean of Harvard College, and Stout will be numbered among the other contributors...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, who is sometimes thought to occupy the highest Manhattan sleeping place, lives no higher than the 29th floor of the palatial Ritz Towers of which he is part owner...