Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COUNTEE CULLEN Assistant Editor Opportunity Journal of Negro Life New York...
...England to Florida, not to put up at an expensive hotel for golf, sunburn and palmy evenings, nor yet to fill his pockets with realty profits, as other Northerners were doing; but to advance the cause of learning. He was Hamilton Holt, sociologist, peace promoter, onetime (1897-1921) editor of his grandfather's liberal weekly, The Independent. He became president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about...
...making the Lakewood M. E. Church (at Cleveland) the largest of that denomination's congregation and of Merton Stacher Rice in making the Metropolitan Church of Detroit the second largest, each after several years with the same congregation, makes a change in Methodist clerical practice seem imminent, says editor W. B. Leach of Church Management...
...cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife of Wm. Scoville Moore; Constance, wife of Wm. Gray Elmslie...
...before Guglielmo Marconi took out patents in Britain-Nikola Tesla patented in the U. S. a system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...