Word: editor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British raid. The list contained only 15 names of persons so obscure that public interest flagged utterly. Reporters, sleuthing diligently, came upon nothing to indicate that even one of these humans is "a dangerous Red." Typical was Miss Elizabeth Braun, a 22-year-old proofreader, boarding with one Editor Max Bedacht of The Communist and his wife at No. 3101 Nordica Ave., Chicago...
...Admiral Bristol is the only pearl in our yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
Married. Edward E. Paramore Jr., onetime (1923) National Affairs Editor of TIME, now playwright (Set a Thief), author too of Yukon Jake, famed poem printed and reprinted by request by Vanity Fair; to Miss Edith Wellman; in Manhattan...
...University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
Died. James Stetson Metcalfe, 68, for 31 years dramatic editor of Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...