Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Catholic parochial school system and the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Today, 8,911 nuns of her order, eight colleges, 160 high schools and academies, 447 parochial elementary schools and many a hospital and asylum are her monuments. Last week, Rev. Leonard Feeney, poet and associate editor of the Jesuit weekly, America, argued her claims to sainthood in an eulogistic, lyrical biography.† Cried he: "It will be the signalization in time-for our newspapers (you know our flair for publicity?) will give it their largest headlines-and the commemoration in Eternity ... of the first American girl...
...basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with a series of wisecracking banner headlines for his "Fire Editions." The headlines...
...Eugene Meyer has a fortune conservatively estimated, at $30,000,000 and a capacity for surrounding himself with able men. From The Brookings Institution, he hired an editor, Felix Morley (brother of Christopher), who soon won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. To give the paper zip, he hired a Middle-Westerner as managing editor, Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones. The Post soon developed a set of features good enough to be syndicated. Brightest among them are the arresting cartoons of 28-year-old Gene Elderman...
...turn of the century. Wall Street was run by men in muttonchop whiskers, high square derbies, baggy trousers; they thought of stock prices as unrelated quotations on individual issues, often the result of manipulation. Charles H. Dow, a small, precise man, first editor of The Wall Street Journal, had a different idea; he had been keeping averages of railroad and industrial stock prices since 1897, had found beneath individual fluctuations a trend of the market as a whole...
Charles Dow died in 1902 without having made much impression on cynical Wall Street. A subsequent editor of the Journal, florid William Peter Hamilton, embroidered the idea, told men in pegtop trousers and telescope hats that the averages forecast both business and market trends. In 1922 he published The Stock Market Barometer, first comprehensive book on the Dow Theory. William Hamilton died in 1929-a few weeks after he announced that the greatest bull market in history had ended: "On the late Charles H. Dow's well-known method of reading the stock market movement from the Dow-Jones...