Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's most acrid editor, Giornale d'Italia's super-Fascist Virginio Gayda, cracked: "The wealth amassed by American Democracy was attained with wars of expansion and conquest during which they exterminated all native races. Nevertheless they have not known how to stamp out gangster crimes, and finally Lindbergh, America's national hero, has been obliged to seek safety for his child in voluntary exile across the Ocean." Terming the President's strictures upon Europe a form of intervention in the Continent's affairs, Signor Gayda ludicrously screeched, "Roosevelt's attempt at American...
Gimbel Bros, department store awarded its prize for Philadelphia's Woman of the Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...
...blatancy the palm went to the Denver Post, which concentrated in color on Colorado's contributions to the Union. Something of a record for frankness was set by the Boston Transcript, whose financial editor Laurance P. Morse observed in connection with business forecasts: "This annual folly has gradually come to have the sanction of years and with it a sort of gentlemen's agreement . . . that no one shall check up on what the other one said last year...
...Business Page was an inconspicuous feature of the U. S. Press until the middle 1920's, when public interest in the stockmarket made editors clamor for Wall Street news. United Press did not even furnish stockmarket quotations when Elmer Conrad Walzer, after a few years of teaching and a turn at reporting, became UP's financial editor in 1926. As editors expanded their business section, UP geared itself to fill more space, hired specialists, furnished columnists, commentators and quotations...
...most dailies outside Chicago and New York, the lot of the financial editor is unenviable. He has to take much of his material secondhand, may have to compete with syndicated columnists on his own page, usually sees his big local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...