Word: hoben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as he was nominated, but Grant stopped it. Said he: "We'll wait for the Democrats, see who they nominate and decide then." But the Journal did not decide until Ike campaigned in the Midwest and met McCarthy. "Ike didn't keep a decent distance," said Hoben, "and we did think he showed insufficient strength in dissociating himself from McCarthy. From then on, it was impossible for us to back Ike." Even the two of the six editorial writers who voted for Ike agreed that "the Journal's traditions made it necessary to back Stevenson...
...Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years ago, is president of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay Hoben, 51, who joined the paper in 1925, runs the five-man staff of editorial writers. Publisher Irwin Maier, 54, devotes his time to keeping the balance sheet healthy, and Business Manager Donald B. (for Byron) Abert, 46, who ably runs the plant operations, good-naturedly admits that marrying Grant...
...Preconceptions. Grant lets Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay Hoben and his five assistants do the speaking for the Journal, rarely knows what the paper is saying until he reads it in print. Says Grant: "[The public] can hate us, they can damn us. In fact, by God, I know we're right when both sides damn us. But whatever they say about us, they can't control...