Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon a land where liberty no longer thrived. So vile did three New York judges think the boy's phrases, so indecent his imagery that they would not excuse his adolescence. Last week they ordered him to the reformatory for 13 months. Three other judges had already sentenced Editor William F. Dunne of the Daily Worker to 30 days in the New York workhouse and a $500 fine for publishing the lines...
...sandbags and barbed wire was erected last week by perspiring young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve his sentence (TIME...
...Editor Daudet, who recognizes no political authority save that of the "King of France,"* immediately called out last week his "Camelots du Roi" a band of young Royalists thus derisively nicknamed "The King's Hawkers" because they have at times hawked upon the streets copies of L'Action Française. With sandbags, barbed wire, and 100 "Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers...
...written by these other men of a more cosmopolitan appeal. The recent appearance of four of his works in English translations has aroused some interest among discerning readers. The following article was written especially for the BOOKSHELF by a family friend and fellow-townsman of Herr Mann's.-Editor's Note...
Take for instance police methods. Leon Daudet, famous editor of the Royalist. "L' Action Francaise", two years ago was sentenced to jail for a political offense--libel. But M. Daudet was not arrested such methods are not used in France, especially not with political defendants. Any such action the police wisely aver would serve no good cause, for it would merely make a martyr out of the convict, and political martyrs talk louder and are listened too more eagerly than ordinary politicians...