Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German Government but Editor Ruppel got a rise out of old Senator William E. Borah, who bumbled about a Congressional investigation...
Whether or not Editor Ruppel's most ambitious stunt to date was up to the standard Times readers have come to expect, the Times's Nazi expose sent its city & suburban circulation rocketing above its evening rivals, the News and Hearst American, for the first time...
...Nation. Each sells for 15?, each is published in Manhattan. Outsiders are likely to credit the Nation with having a little more wallop than the New Republic, the New Republic with having a little finer literary quality than the Nation. Politically they are not far apart. According to Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, the Nation "has followed a left-liberal policy all the way through, and it has shifted somewhat further to the left as times have changed." The New Republic, says Editor Bruce Bliven, is "working along every front to do away with repression, hunger, insecurity, injustice of all kinds...
Practically unknown to the people who read his daily column in 40 newspapers is the fact that on & off for 10 years Mr. Broun, whose heart is as big as his stomach, has been contributing (almost literally) a weekly article to the Nation. First news that Editor Kirchwey had of his shift was when the New Republic sent in copy for an exchange advertisement in the Nation announcing the acquisition of Mr. Broun. However, Editor Kirchwey (who agreed to the advertising swap) had long been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy...
...vigorous unofficial body of U. S. Episcopalians, comparable to the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism...