Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to agree that there is a "war" in Ethiopia, onetime Editor Mussolini called what Italians are doing an "expedition...
...disclosures came in a book Powerful America* by Eugene J. Young, cable editor of the New York Times, who was fortunate in obtaining memoranda left by the late Adolph S. Ochs. On April 22, 1921, Mr. Ochs, as the potent publisher of the New York Times, was invited to breakfast at No. 10 Downing St. by Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Afterward he was shown into the office of First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Lee of Fareham, secretaries were sent out of the room, the doors were closed. As palpitating Publisher Ochs afterward recorded in his memorandum, "I left...
...Hokuseido Press which specializes in English editions of Lafcadio Hearn. Last week packing cases from Japan were opened in New York by G. E. Stechert & Co., Agents, and soon Manhattan literary circles buzzed excitedly over Adventures in Far Eastern Journalism by Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead, the British editor & publisher of Shanghai's monthly Oriental Affairs...
Only troubles with this advertisement were that no arms were being exhibited for sale at the Old Manchu Arsenal, and that there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking...
...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...