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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Merz ran the school paper in his home town of Sandusky. Ohio, served a one-year hitch as an intelligence officer in the War. He worked for the New York World through the seven lean years before its demise. He has had seven fat years since on the Times where he distinguished himself as an able articulator of the ideas of Publisher Arthur Hays ("The Boss") Sulzberger. For some time he has been one of the august council of seven-that tunes the Times. His new, sober post will probably not dim his quick...
...first time Wythe Williams went to Europe he watched Kaiser Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt bury Edward VII. Wythe Williams was a reporter on vacation from the New York World. After the funeral, everybody went home but Wythe Williams. He worked in Europe for the next 25 years. During that time he called Georges Clemenceau "a terrible old man" and was thanked by the Tiger of France for "having the nerve to say such things"; he scooped the world on the substitution of Nivelle for Joffre as the French Army's Commander-in-Chief; he scooped it again...
...until he had been out of Parliament 15 years did Lord Beaverbrook see his old hobby horse E. F. T. come home a winner. Taking the stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...
...presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
Genial Banker Jones, at home on his Texas heath, wasted no time in laying this canard: "I have been introduced as a conservative. I am a liberal." Thereupon, taking his usual line that U. S. banks would have to loosen up "or else," he said: "We should all remember that it is the borrower who makes the mare go. He buys and hires and builds. He sometimes makes mistakes, but even so, he should still be encouraged...