Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house." So wrote Editor Chester W. Cleveland of the Magazine of Sigma Chi in an article published last fortnight (TIME, May 14). Editor Cleveland did not conceal the fact that he disapproved of Candidate Hoover because the latter was non-fraternity and anti-fraternity while in college...
Candidate Hoover last week denied that he ever waited on table in any sorority house. Editor Cleveland's article also said: "There he met and courted Lou Henry, now Mrs. Hoover. It is alleged that her sorority sisters were considerably embarrassed in a social way." Candidate Hoover last week confirmed the general impression that he met Mrs. Hoover in a geology laboratory...
Marlen Pew, editor of Editor & Publisher, uncovered last week an amazing tale of the Florida celery belt...
...story of Rolland L. Dean who, after graduation from Yale in 1923, became editor and publisher of the Sanford, Fla., Daily Herald. The big man of Sanford was Forrest Lake, mayor for 20 years, president of the most potent local bank, business and social dictator. Editor Dean, naturally enough, was taken into the friendship of Mayor Lake. But in 1926, Editor Dean discovered that Mayor Lake had pocketed the difference between $100 and $95.10 on a number of town bonds which he had sold to Manhattan financiers. He immediately published the story, beginning: "An optimist is a man who sells...
Mayor Lake replied by starting a newspaper of his own and getting Sanford advertisers to boycott the Daily Herald. Editor Dean redoubled the investigations of Mayor Lake's strange behavior, charged him with tyrannical rule and misappropriation of funds. The issue came to an ugly head on Aug. 5, 1927, when Mayor Lake was re-elected by a majority of 22 votes. At midnight, a mob of drunken hoodlums started out to punish Editor Dean for maligning People's Choice Lake. Editor Dean stood in the doorway of his home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that...