Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign...
More than $2,000 was assembled and the income from this fund was used to establish an annual lectureship. Last year J. Alfred Spender, retired editor of London's oldtime Westminster Gazette, went to New York University and spoke. It was decided to hold the lecture each year in a different part of the country. The subject of the lectures is "some form of dynamic journalism...
Last week the second lecture was de livered. The place was the University of Missouri. The speaker was Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher...
...Editor Pew had a report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death...