Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Hersey refers to this incident in his book Pulpwood Editor...
...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
...about the time of Edda's birth Mussolini's journalistic fortunes were changing. Having made a success in Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive...
Starting on a transcontinental tour in a shiny big Cadillac, San Francisco's wonderboy editor, cocky, carrot-topped Paul Clifford ("Pink") Smith of the Chronicle, last week paused to explain why he had refused to run for mayor. With characteristic candor he delivered himself as follows...
Paul Smith wanted to get into newspaper work, so he went back to San Francisco and began writing a financial column for the Chronicle. Then, deciding he needed more education, he borrowed $500 and went to Europe. In January 1933 the financial editor of the Chronicle died and Wonderboy Smith got a cable to come home and take the job. When Herbert Hoover tried to hire him away in 1935, he was made executive editor. In October 1937 he became general manager, with only one boss, Cementman George Cameron, who married the founder's eldest daughter...