Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov and onetime Soviet No. 1 Editor Nikolai Bukharin, both finely bearded Old Bolsheviks. Smooth-shaven New Bolshevik Mezhlauk smoothly voiced indignation, but not at third-degree methods. "It is hard to imagine a more atrocious spectacle," said he, "than Bukharin and Rykov, who have betrayed the interests of the working class and of their country...
...concentrators thus carefully selected will then be invited to meet in the Crimson building and discuss courses, instructors, and tutors, and an editor of the paper will then write the article about the field, condensing the opinions expressed in the meetings. After the article has been written the facts, not the opinions, will be checked with the head of the department. The articles will be printed in the Crimson during the reading period, and later published in pamphlet form, to be available before the end of the year...
...right in the Journals front yard. It was announced that he had acquired the feeble Providence News-Tribune (evening) which had been nursed along by Democratic Senator Peter G. Gerry as a political sounding-board to 25,000 pairs of readers' ears. Out went dignified, high-collared Editor Joaquim B. Calvo. Up went Ralph E. Bailey from his job as head of the News-Tribune State House staff to be managing editor. With the News-Tribune, Mr. O'Hara acquired an Associated Press franchise, a chance to go directly to Providence's 252,981 potential newspaper readers...
...Democratic State Representatives scowled at the Journal by passing a measure calling for the investigation of its tax payments to the City of Providence, supposedly because it had been under-assessed. In October, another camera was destroyed. This time it belonged to the Star, and the Journal's Editor Sevellon Brown was accused of breaking it. When a judge released Mr. Brown, the Star let loose a journalistic catcall at the decision, was promptly held in contempt of court by the incensed jurist...
...Woman Wise" gives a new slant on the newspaper business. A sports editor (Michael Whalen) grafts a percentage from fight promoters on the threat that he will give them no publicity in his paper. Despite this highly improbable theme, things move along rapidly and in a highly entertaining fashion...