Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office in the Century Building to file records of their real estate transactions. Dr. Thompkins, like other Negroes who have held the office, is used to this. A distinguished member of his race, the 56-year-old Missourian has studied at three universities. In Kansas City, where he is editor of the Kansas City American, he was first Negro superintendent of General Hospital No. 2 and chief of its surgical staff...
...Johns Hopkins risked criticism by presenting a brief, preliminary report concerning Prontosil to the Southern Medical Association. Up to last week the Journal of the American Medical Association, which has the biggest (95,200) circulation of all medical publications, printed not a word about Prontosil or Prontylin. Cautious Editor Morris Fishbein, who was educated to be a pathologist, has on at least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter...
...resulting Dictionary is handsomer than its British sister, far freer and less formal in style. The first is owing to Publisher Charles Scribner Sr., the second to the Dictionary's original editor, Historian Allen Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...poor third for President the year before, "Young Bob" was being eased into his father's Senate seat, Brother Philip was district attorney of Dane county. Old Bob had peered amiably on occasion into the University but when the Republican and Progressive regents got together to elect Editor Frank, then an eloquent young Republican liberal of 37, no La Follette raised a hand to interfere. Next year Phil La Follette was appointed a lecturer in the University Law School. He held that job until he was elected Governor...
...miles from Seattle, had a fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...