Word: edits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What part Ambassador Welles had had in this was hidden last week by his customary public silence. But behind the scenes he was active. He called on Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara. Ten minutes after he arrived, word went out to the government censors, who edit all Cuban newspapers, to suppress all mention of the call. One enthusiastic censor forbade all future mention of Mr. Welles. Next day Mr. Welles had luncheon with Machado and the man Machado had just made his Secretary of War & Marine: General Alberto Herrera. As Secretary of State Ferrara sailed for London at the head...
...second election to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, December 14 and 15, it was announced last night by the Senior Class Nominating Committee. At that time a permanent class secretary, a permanent class committee of six members, a Class Day committee of seven members, and five men to edit the Senior Class Album will be chosen...
...left Scripps-Howard to edit the four-year-old Cleveland Times which momentarily challenged the Plain-Dealer's monopoly in the morning field. For lack of advertising the Times withered within a year, having been nothing more potent than an honest, genteel, ingenuous paper. Editor Martin became industrial commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce...
...turned down because there were too many recruits. He got a temporary job in the Geographic Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine...
...lives of men, but because it allowed him to see once again an old friend who had remained long tucked away in Rhode Island. Indeed he and the Vagabond had shared the tower of Memorial Hall together for many years until he had been called away to edit the now famous series of Brown Studies...