Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hadden and Henry R. Luce, TIME'S cofounders, got down to writing a prospectus for the Weekly Newsmagazine, they put this thought in politer language. Said their prospectus...
...Vera Conard, president of the Women's Club of America, called on U.S. women to crusade for a woman President of the U.S. Among her nominations: the Duchess of Windsor, Clare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Replied Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women voters would not support a woman. . . . Women don't like to see other women get ahead...
...Briton Hadden, 31, died of a streptococcus infection which reached his heart. Hadden's illness was the occasion for appointing a managing editor. Before that, Luce and Hadden had alternated as editor and business manager...
March 3, 1923-Vol. I, No. 1 of TIME. Editors: Briton Hadden, Henry R. Luce; Associates: Manfred Gottfried, Thomas J. C. Martyn, Alan Rinehart, John A. Thomas. Circulation Manager: Roy E. Larsen. Advertising Manager: Robert L. Johnson. Circulation...
...head: London Lawyer Sir Arthur Brownlow fforde, 47, wartime under secretary in two British ministries (Supply, Treasury). Hard-pressed Rugby had frankly picked him because it needed someone who knew how to handle money. All week the London Times's letter columns bristled and huffed. Canon Harry Kenneth Luce, head master of Durham School, posed the question that troubled everyone: "Is a head master to be primarily a schoolmaster or an administrator...