Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jacob Richard Meltzner, of Chicago, graduate Law student and editor of the Law Review, was found dead yesterday morning in his room in an Agassiz Street apartment...
Marriage Revealed. Seward Collins, 37, onetime editor & publisher of The Bookman, editor of the American Review; and Mrs. Dorothea Brande, his able associate editor, author of the best-selling Wake Up and Live!; last month; in Manhattan...
Under this storm of castigation and second-guessing, the Digest's editors sat down to decide what to say for themselves. Their poll had accurately foretold the major electoral results of, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932. This time something had gone horribly wrong. Pleased and proud were its readers when out of its travail came the Digest with a cheerful, sporting handling of its own and other poll scores. Good-humored Editor Wilfred J. Funk, who himself had wagered no money on the election, featured on his magazine's first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend...
Fact was that to the Digest's aging Publisher Robert Joseph Cuddihy, mail-order methods have always spelled success. This year, Editor Funk recommended that more money be spent to check and supplement the 1932 lists, was overruled. Only ten million ballots were mailed this year, half as many as in 1932. And anyone would guess that more Landon than Roosevelt voters were to be found at their 1932 addresses...
...daughter Mary, who was apparently not very bright, wrote requesting "speedy consent of her being marryed" to a stranger named Mr. Fortunatus Wright, a brewer from Liverpool. Precisely what happened remains unclear, for Mr. Bulkeley scratched out a long passage in his diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great Britain as a dazzling privateer, "the brave corsair" whose raids on French shipping had netted...