Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor of the Crimson...
...retraction was printed, and on the eve of last autumn's elections, the Inquirer's President Charles A. Tyler and Editor John T. Custis were haled before a Jefferson County grand jury in Mr. Margiotti's home grounds. "A desperate attempt to muzzle [the Inquirer] in the midst of a political campaign!" wrote Editor Custis. The Inquirer got a change of venue to Washington County and a postponement...
...alley back of his Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly denouncing the "alliance" between the underworld and Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking...
This, if anything, increased the boom, and London Stock Exchange gigolos-the well-born young Englishmen with wealthy women friends who get 50% commission on orders they put in the way of regular brokers-were chided by the financial editor of Lord Beaverbrook's patriotic Daily Express. Wrote he: "I hear that the 'half commission boys' in the West End are speculating in aircraft shares on behalf of their clients, the ladies. This is always a bad sign...
...absence of Editor Ted Scott, vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type...