Word: foss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neue Zeitung's new editor, Kendall Foss, who had taken over in mid-November, was stung by the slaps. In his own defense, he told the New York Times that his paper was "attempting within the American tradition . . . to report what is being said and whispered in Germany . . . even if that includes views other than the official American viewpoint...
...following men were elected to HDC membership: John A. Seiler '51, and John C. Aldrich, Robert A. Berger, Jonathon Bishop, Gaynor F. Bradish, David M. Brown, Douglas G. Dahlin, Kenneth L. Everett, Harry F. Flynn, David D. Foss, John S. Gerig, Chester E. Gordon, and Richard E. Norris, all of the Class...
Last week, Die Neue Zeitung got its fourth editor: greying Kendall Foss, 44, ex-TIME writer, Nieman Fellow and longtime foreign correspondent. Except for Editor Foss and a handful of other key men, the Zeitung is written by Germans in German...
...year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office, where he dictates stories and headlines to his secretary. Editor Jack Fleischer, able predecessor of Ken Foss, tried to introduce U.S. methods to the Zeitung but didn't get far. The editor won the right to read the copy (it used to go direct from secretaries to composing room), but the paper still has no copy desk or rewrite...
Then the committee discovered that one way, apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...