Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Lincoln challenge was written in part by Charles L. Wilson, then editor of the Chicago Journal. But traditions of the past make no profits in the present and last week the Journal was bought by the Chicago Daily News, whose new plaza is the most beautiful spot in Chicago. Leader in the Chicago evening paper field, the News was founded in 1875, made great by the late Victor Fremont Lawson and the late Melville Elijah Stone, passing to Walter Ansel Strong after the death...
Edward Pearson Warner, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, now editor of Aviation, leading air weekly, said last week: "That probably will eventually become desirable, but it would be unwise while the air force remains interlocked with the Army and Navy as closely as now seems advisable. In another ten or 20 years the outlook may change very greatly...
...Editor Mitchell and Col. Mitchell...
Married. Desha Breckinridge, editor and publisher of the Lexington, Ky. Herald; to Mrs. Frazer Lebus of Lexington, widow of Clarence Lebus, onetime largest Kentucky land owner; in Nantucket, Mass...
Died. James P. Mandell, 23, of Boston, son of George S. Mandell, editor of the Boston Transcript; in Norwood, Mass.; of intracranial injuries sustained in a polo collision...