Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Randolph's contract was the product of a twelve-year campaign. Born in Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk Railway Repair Shop ("Largest in Russia"). A 21-year-old girl, Nagimla Arykova, hitherto the editor of an unheard of provincial weekly in Kazakhstan, found herself installed as the Commissar of Public Welfare of the Kazak Soviet Socialist Republic...
Lots of mystery, lots of intrigue, lots of sock. For nearly three years that has been Managing Editor Louis Ruppel's formula for making the tabloid Daily Times Chicago's liveliest sheet. Shortly after Publisher Samuel Emory Thomason went to the Times early in 1935 he sent a reporter to an Illinois asylum, plastered the Times with inside revelations gained from "Seven Days in the Madhouse!" He headlined Edward VIII's abdication "LONG LOVE THE KING!" and disguised Times photographers as clergymen so they could sneak into a hospital, scoop a picture of an injured motorman after...
Last January Editor Ruppel decided to investigate U. S. Nazis. Using the sleuthing methods he had learned as an agent of the U. S. Narcotic Bureau, he picked for the Nazi-hunt the Times's German-born Real Estate Editor John Metcalfe, his brother James, an old G-man, and William A. Mueller, a seasoned newsman...
...Yorkville in February, made friends, was "persuaded" to join the nationalist Amerikadeutscher Volksbund. Soon he was put in charge of Bund propaganda activities. Back in Chicago fortnight ago Metcalfe exchanged notes with Brother James Metcalfe and Mueller, who had also done extensive prowling among German-Americans. Together with Managing Editor Ruppel they took over the Times's first nine pages to reveal "Secrets of Nazi Army in U. S. A.-by Times men who joined it!" Sample secret: "The regimented tread of marching men under the flaming Nazi swastika resounds from coast to coast in the United States today...