Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...
Chief feature of the Investment News was a daily column of market advice run under the by-line of "Waldo Young." Its author, Editor Clarence Hebb, unwilling to leave Wall Street, announced he would continue the column as a broker's tipsheet. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal took over Investment News's 6,000 subscriptions, editorialized: "The business recession, rising costs and taxes upon gross -problems with which all business men are familiar-contributed to the final decision to suspend. More will be heard from this ghastly combination...
...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
...enough to rule-Roy Howard, diminutive, dandified and able, last week became the head of the empire he had helped develop. His post: chairman of a triumvirate of trustees of whom the other two will be hard-working Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins and George Bertram ("Deake") Parker, talented editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard papers...
...first twelve years the Saturday Review of Literature, under Editor Henry Seidel Canby, got its reputation as a conservative, conscientious literary journal. Its sober book reviews were coupled somewhat incongruously with the playfully erudite, wambling columns of Christopher Morley, its mildly suggestive personal ads with a weekly puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks...