Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation had a. better reason to speak than the editor of the Nation (weekly), Oswald Garrison Villard, for whom pacifism is a supreme virtue.* To him, the U. S. participation in the World War was a crime-he said so at the time and had some of his writings barred from the U. S. mails-to him, the Versailles peace settlement was an atrocity; to him, the last ten years have been a mess-an inevitable mess, resulting from a noxious disease. Last week was clearly his week and he wrote with the wrath of a decade...
...Other issues championed by Editor Villard, who is a gentleman in the quaintly literal sense of the word: tolerance and uplift of the Negro, free trade, women's suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
...Josephus Daniels, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of the Navy, editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, the rival Raleigh Times last week posed a question that has intrigued North Carolinians for many a month; it asked him bluntly whether he is "steering his personal ambition toward the berth of Vice President to the present Governor of New York...
...boudoir in their suburban mansion, Mme. Clemente vents her jealousy and disapproval of Crystal's wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many...
Readers of Editor Currie asked themselves: Have the goat men stormed the citadel of the Ladies' Home Journal? Is it possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public...