Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter printed in your issue of Feb. 27, from William J. Turner of Wilkinsburg, Pa., concerning the Penn State "Froth" parody of TIME, contained several statements decidedly erroneous. To quote from his letter: "The editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the subject of the front cover caricature threatened libel suits...
...President of Pi Delta Epsilon, the literary fraternity, has branded the above statement as absolutely false, and instead lauds the editor of "Froth" for the publication of the issue. Major W. O. Thompson, the "subject of the front cover caricature," states, "I was highly pleased with the entire magazine, and consider the issue a distinct achievement in the field of journalism. The entire 'Froth' staff should be commended upon it, and I took the reference to myself in the manner intended, that of an excellent joke...
...Junior Editor...
...Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson of Senator Cutting's Santa Fé New Mexican (daily). Cried Editor Johnson: "Why didn't you tell him to his face...
...descendant of Daniel Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience...