Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Wheeler Ervin, 73-year-old public relations adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, looks back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs's daily letters from prison, smile at advertisements announcing John and Lionel Barrymore in The Jest, cluck his tongue appreciatively at some of the best news reporting of another troubled...
...Week, edited by a tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn...
...Whitehall Letter concentrates on interpreting foreign news, has good sources of information, is pretty accurate. Published anonymously, the snooty Whitehall Letter insists that its subscribers be properly introduced. The Far East Survey is published fortnightly by a onetime editor of Kobe's Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, purports to give Britishers the inside dope on what goes on in China and Japan...
...Pitchfork supported Pa Ferguson, and its editor once sued a newspaper for the 5? he had paid for a copy only to find nothing about Ferguson in it. Ten years ago Pitchfork Smith 'walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had just been acquitted of murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged...
Died. Lapsley Greene Walker, 85, longtime editor of the famed Ochs-founded Chattanooga Times (1903-38), who crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan, for Repeal; in Chattanooga, Tenn...