Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republicans Sirs: Will you please investigate your statement (made once before) that Walter Lippmann was ''Co-founder of The New Republic" (TIME. Jan. 26). Having known Herbert Croly well (he was not mentioned), and being familiar with the steps leading up to the founding of The New; Republic, I believe you are mistaken. If I am, I shall be glad to know it. The late Willard Straight and his wife Dorothy Whitney Straight (now Mrs. Leonard Elmhurst) were the co-founders and provided the necessary financial backing-Mr. Lippmann was asked by Mr. Croly...
...Republic thinks TIME'S phrase "a co-founder of The New Republic" was entirely accurate. It is true that Herbert Croly (with whom TIME'S story was not concerned) and the Straights conceived the idea of The New Republic and the former asked Walter Lippmann to become an editor. But long before the magazine's first number appeared Mr. Lippmann was a member of the group, was active in shaping the paper's policies.-ED. Judge Payne's Farm Sirs...
...dance director badgering a troop of chorus girls. "Write this story over again," he growls. "And put some menace into it. Give it some bated breath! Get excited! How can you expect the readers to get excited if you don't get excited yourself?" Last week Walter Lippmann, able, scholarly editor of the New York World, predicted an early disappearance of bated-breath or "yellow" journalism for the reason that the collective public palate cannot long remain unjaded. "When everything is dramatic, nothing after a while is dramatic." Editor Lippmann, famed author and a co-founder...
...Editor Lippmann (who joined the World ten years ago this month) said of the present-day curiosity-serving press: "[It] has had as its central motive the immediate satisfaction of the largest number of people. . . . [It] escaped . . . the tutelage of government, fell under the tutelage of the masses." No defense for the yellow newspaper and the tabloid could Editor Lippmann find on the ground that "it gives the public what it wants." Rather he saw its only justification in that it gave the U. S. a press "freer from hidden control than any in the world." At the same time...
...suggestions and advice concerning President Hoover's political future that followed the election returns to the White House, none was more significant than an editorial entitled, "A Dream For Mr. Hoover," in the arch-Democratic New York World. Its author, able Editor Walter Lippmann, had been a good Hoover friend since 1915, had written the first article (1919) proposing him for the presidency. Excerpts from Mr. Lippmann's Dream For Mr. Hoover...