Word: justins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHICAGO: A PORTRAIT-Henry Justin Smith-Century...
...Henry Justin Smith, for five years the spare, bespectacled, kindly managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, knows his city, likes to write about it. His first book on Chicago (Chicago: The History of Its Reputation-TIME, Sept. 9, 1929), written in collaboration with Lloyd Lewis (now Daily News drama critic), delved deep into the gory lore of Chicago's dirty past, took no pains to paint a pretty picture. With a World's Fair in the offing, with a concerted effort on the part of its more worthy citizenry to put raw beefsteak on Chicago...
...revising editorials on a large board laid across his knees. Conservative, sentimental, Editor Dennis personifies the News, a relic of the days of Founder Lawson, the days of Writers Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Keith Preston and Dramacritic Amy Leslie (TIME, Sept. 8). Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff as he has done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes a column) and Ben Hecht or Critic Hughes, either in his office...
...first "lame ducks" to be received by the President after the election was Henry Justin Allen, Senator-reject from Kansas. Citizen Allen emerged from the White House loudly denying that he was looking for or would accept any Federal lame-duck roost...
Republican Senator-reject Henry Justin Allen of Kansas: ". . . [I] had the misfortune to be ill the entire campaign period. . . . The results show no evidence of a revolt against the Administration...