Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion for the gathering was the 109th birth anniversary of the late great Nurse Florence Nightingale, the founder of trained nursing, who died...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
McLean v. The Record. Rich and social is Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause...
...Hard-working Richard ("Young Dick") Grozier, publisher of Boston's Post, (circulation, 397,419), son of Edwin Atkins Grozier, the Post's late great Publisher, testified. He submitted a letter he had received from his managing editor, Clifton B. Carberry, ablest lobe of the Post's brain. In part the letter read...
...cynics, they recalled that the late great blind Joseph Pulitzer was called, in the '90s, "Father of Yellow Journalism.'"* More light on the award for 1928 was shed last week by Dr. Richard Eugene Burton, Chairman of the Award Committee...