Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable if not definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...
From Paris last week astute Editor Charles Grey of Britain's candid weekly The Aeroplane reported after visiting French aircraft plants: "Every factory in France has for several years past turned into what is called a cellule of some sort of Communist organization about which few people know anything. The head of the factory knows of the cellule in his own factory and he knows who is the Chef de cellule. But he never knows what is the organization to which his Chef de cellule reports or which issues orders to the Chef...
...hard-hitting British Editor Henry George Wandesfdrde Woodhead of the Peking & Tientsin Times started a campaign in which he "questioned"-to use his own mild fighting word-the advisability of Britain's continuing to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to Chinese Education. Editor Woodhead recently recalled in Oriental Affairs: "China at that time was already experiencing considerable trouble from the insubordination of her students, and it hardly seemed credible that purposes mutually beneficial to China and Great Britain would be realized by adding enormously to the number of higher educational institutions...
...wisdom of these thoughts prevailed in London, and the British Boxer Indemnity Trustees accordingly have aided Premier Chiang to complete a railway each of whose 700 miles may be regarded as representing just so many less Chinese students. In Oriental Affairs suave Editor Woodhead led the way for editors in the British Empire generally to call the completed railway "a gift from the British taxpayer to the Chinese people...