Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order, Miss Janis used the News of Tarrytown, N. Y., where she owns famed Phillipse Manor (built in 1683), to reveal her plan to dispose of that 15-acre estate, auction off her other effects for local charities later this summer. Wrote Miss Janis to the News editor...
Died. Amos Parker Wilder, 74, one-time (1909-14) U. S. Consul-General in Shanghai, later the prohibitionist co-editor of New Haven's Journal-Courier, father of Novelist Thornton Wilder; of heart disease; in New Haven, Conn...
...black-&-white reproductions of modern paintings and sculptures, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, the songs of the Fox Indians of Iowa, a plan for an elaborate surgical pavilion on the bank of the Suez Canal and a list of the words that crop out most often in the dreams of Editor Jolas...
Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched...
Meanwhile the American Legion, which in 1934 called on State legislatures to enact the hateful Oaths as part of its "Americanism Program," humbly recanted. Dispatched to Portland to eat crow was Agnes Samuelson's good friend, Editor Frank Miles of the Iowa Legionnaire, who announced: "The national commander [James Raymond Murphy] authorizes me to say that he believes the Legion would make a mistake if it advocated the Teachers' Oath Bill." Explained Legionary Miles: "The Legion wants the youth of America to think...