Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Adolf Hitler boasting at Nurnberg of what he has done in four years, officials of the Soviet planning commission (Gosplan) in Moscow last week had their say to the visiting editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, Dr. Jules I. Bogen. At the Gosplan he was told officially: "By the close of the Third Five-Year-Plan (1938-43) the standard of living of the Russian population will closely approach that of employed workers in advanced countries of Western Europe, and by the end of the Fourth Five-Year-Plan (1943-48) it will begin to approach that...
...simply, the sport consists of nothing more than going out into the woods and 'squealing up,' or calling wild animals to your side by making noises which appeal to them. . . . As is nearly always the case in London, the sport was founded on a letter to the editor of the Times. A gentleman had an idea, he wrote in, the letter was published and the game was born. . . . His description of the 'squealing up,' with his groundskeeper, of a litter of fox cubs will give an idea of the fascination of the sport...
...more-recom-mending an exerciser owned by an obscure health enthusiast named Macfadden. On it were emblazoned the words, "Weakness a Crime: Don't Be a Criminal!" . . . In this humble beginning, the world first met the editorial technique of Macfadden. . . . Few people think of Macfadden as the great editor. The world knows Macfadden, the crusader, because of his fights against weakness, against prudery, for sane foods, for sane living. Macfadden today inspires more people than any other magazine editor. His followers are millions. . . . By its own right each Macfadden Magazine is a constructive force with worth-while people-because...
...figures showed a deficit of only $5,610.40 for the first half of 1936. Also acquired in 1931 was Liberty, now the big façade of the Macfadden publishing structure. Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick could not make it pay. Under the direction of kinetic Editor Charles Fulton Oursler,* who runs the magazine mostly by teletype from West Falmouth, Mass., Liberty (circulation: 2,505,302) is now believed to be in the black...
...British English, but it was a layman, Henry Louis Mencken (The American Language), who first popularized the idea that U. S. citizens speak a tongue of their own. Eleven years ago the University of Chicago asked slight, bearded Professor Sir William Alexander Craigie, since 1901 co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, to collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles* When complete the Dictionary will be as bulky...