Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Richards, a veteran of the World War, and a noted journalist, told how he came to invent the Robot. "What really caused its invention," he said, "was the need of an important person, to take the place of the Duke of York, in opening the Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers, in London. Since I was secretary of the organization, I decided to make a Robot who could open the exhibition. After many disappointments, it was perfected and amid much excitement, the mechanical man made his debut...
Herbert Bayard Swope, redheaded, blue-shirted, jut-jawed journalist, left his post as executive editor of the New York World on Jan. 1. Thereafter, many a fellow-journalist pondered the Swopian future. What would he do, this man of 47 surcharged with energy, wealth, self-confidence? Would he buy a great metropolitan daily? Would he go into politics, write a book, be tsar of some industry? Or would he just twiddle his talented thumbs...
Last week there was news of Journalist Swope. In blaring newspaper advertisements throughout the land appeared his defiant signature and photograph. His message in these advertisements was: "I light a Lucky whenever I am tempted to eat between meals. . . . The activities of a newspaper demand good physical condition. I find Lucky Strike an immeasurable aid in helping me keep trim and fit. ... Toasting makes Lucky Strike the cigarette of joy and benefit...
...wife and daughter at his bedside. He was 80 years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist. But his monument, the Associated Press, is a great unbound volume, an unceasing history attuned alike to hamlet and metropolis...
...advertising awards, which amount to approximately $14,000 every year, have been offered since 1923 by Edward Bok, journalist and philanthropist, for the best advertisements in various classes submitted by any individual or organization. They are given with the conviction that advertising is an effective art, calling for the highest standards of illustrations, text, and typography...