Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their wartime censorship apparatus, Lord Macmillan, Chief of the Ministry of Information, told correspondents that the censors had been instructed to delete or kill from their dispatches only information of a military nature. Matters political would not be touched. Last week tall, lanky Claud Cockburn, clever and daring editor of London's famed newsheet The Week, who because of his close Communist associations has pulled many a sensational political news beat, cabled to The Week's U. S. edition, now mimeographed in Manhattan, that the "Herren Censoren," as he called the British copy-passers, had cracked down...
Europe" (presumably Finland). Editor Cockburn, also on the staff of London's Communist newsorgan the Daily Worker, tried to suggest, even as the Kremlin's propagandists have in Moscow, that Finland was aided and abetted by Great Britain in her "aggressions" against the Soviet Union...
...This report is a lie," Mr. Stalin told the editor of Pravda ("Truth"), official Communist Party newsorgan. "But, however much the gentlemen of the Havas Agency may lie, they cannot deny that: First, it was not Germany who attacked France and England, but France and England who attacked Germany, assuming responsibility for the present...
William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Episcopalian, longtime editor of The Witness, longtime secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. With three bishops among its executives, the C.L.I.D. is respectable enough, but its critics have found it more complacent toward Communism than toward Fascism. After the Russo-German pact, The Living Church (Episcopal weekly) called upon Secretary Spofford to declare himself anew. He did so in a letter which the magazine published, and answered editorially, last week. Excerpts...
...important conservatives were ousted -Dr. Samuel Joseph Kopetzky still remained editor of the official New York Medical Week, and Dr. Walter Palmer Anderton, new chairman, is a prominent representative of the old school. Not that the platform of the Progressives was revolutionary, for they offered no clear-cut, constructive program. Few of them agree on the merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems...