Word: editoriat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attained much of this freedom by creating, during the 1920 Democratic convention in San Francisco, a disputatious Jeffersonian character named Godfrey Gloom, honorary sergeant at arms from Amity, Ind. Godfrey was conjured up as a one-day feature, but the Times editoriat liked him. They kept sending him to conventions for 16 years, summoning Davis back from free-lancing to keep Godfrey on the record. After the 1936 Democratic convention, Davis killed off his aging Jeffersonian, interring Jeffersonianism along with his bones, and no less a Times bigwig than Washington Correspondent Arthur Krock wrote his obituary...
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