Word: finley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right track, Publisher Abell spread himself more & more for stories. He ran special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the "magnetic telegraph" of Samuel Finley Breese Morse became practical in 1844. Mr. Abell soon woke up to its value, put in a newswire...
Hannan last week was the figure of a walking boy and the motto "a la Sainte Terre" (to the Holy Earth). "I designed the medal years ago," finished Dr. Finley. "It was when I was Commissioner of Education for the State of New York. I visited a home for incorrigible boys about 30 miles from my office at Albany. I talked to them about walking and promised a medal to the first boy who would walk to my office. One day six of them arrived. I had the medals made, walked the 30 miles to the school and delivered them...
...associate editor of the New York Times since 1921, Dr. Finley has been that newspaper's great ambassador of goodwill, speaker of baccalaureates, captain of causes. Thirty-one honorary degrees have been showered upon him, including 19 LL.D.s. In 1927 he received three LL.D.s, one J.U.D. Foreign governments have awarded him 13 decorations. His long career has been distinguished in scholarship...
...figurehead editor, Dr. Finley is at his book-lined office on the Times's tenth floor each morning at 9 a. m. He writes a daily editorial, participates each noon in the editorial conference of the publisher, managing editor and editorial writers...
...troubled friends he advises, "Read a book, make a friend, take a walk." To himself when impatient with strange people and their causes he recalls the advice his good fishing friend President Grover Cleveland used to give him when he hooked into a wild one: "Go easy on him, Finley, go easy...