Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial which appeared in the Meridian (Miss.) Star under date of April 24, concerning Senator Stephens. The editorial is written by one of the most brilliant writers in Mississippi-a man who is a recent-comer to the South and who is regarded as the most independent editor in the State. He has had occasion to study the record of Senator Stephens and to know whereof he speaks. A closer study than you have given the Senator's record will convince you of your unfairness in passing upon his record...
Fraternity-pinned chests swelled with pride at a piece in the Magazine of Sigma Chi, by its editor, one Chester W. Cleveland...
...Editor Cleveland recalled that Delta Upsilon, to which Charles Evans Hughes as well as the Vice President belongs, "gave Garfield to the Presidency"; that Beta Theta Pi has never "given" any one to the Presidency but that it enrolls Frank Orren Lowden, William Edgar Borah, Robert Marion La Follette. "And here is a scoop. . . . Harry F. Sinclair ... is a Phi Gamma Delta brother of President Coolidge. Will Hays is a former National President of Phi Delta Theta, which gave us President Benjamin Harrison...
Fraternity-pinned chests subsided, however, when Editor Cleveland was carried by his exultation to make the following statement: "There is not much doubt about it. The next President of the United States, if a Republican, will be a fraternity man unless Herbert Hoover is elected." To this prophecy, lame enough in its omission of the two leading candidates for the Presidency (Democrat Smith and Republican Hoover), Editor Cleveland added the following: "Herbert Hoover is non-fraternity and anti-fraternity. Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house. There...
...long ago a Sunday editor [of the World) insisted on editing a contribution to one of the newspaper columns. Somebody had written in to say that before the triumphs of Lindbergh most Americans had regarded all Scandinavians as dullwitted. 'Heywood,' said the responsible editor, 'don't you realize that our Swedish readers would be offended...