Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court of St. James's and owner of the two papers, had found and appointed a successor to onetime General Manager Emanuel Levi, who a month ago departed to take charge of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner (TIME, March 9). New Courier-Journal and Times boss was Mark Foster Ethridge, famed Southern newspaperman. In Richmond, Va., where he had just resigned as publisher of the Times-Dispatch, Mark Ethridge's associates sorrowfully declared that what was Louisville's journalistic gain was Richmond's loss...
When grey-eyed, Mississippi-born young Mark Ethridge returned from the War to his newshawking job on the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, he shortly lost all his pay in a crap game and, as a gesture of extreme indigence, showed up for work in his Navy uniform. Such traditional didoes did not impede Mark Ethridge's progress on the paper. Soon he was city editor, later managing editor...
...expense of the Oberlaender Trust, a fund to provide German junkets for influential Americans. On his return, he took over the flabby old Washington Post. Six months later he was on his way to Richmond and the Times-Dispatch, soon raised its circulation 10%. Made president & publisher, Mark Ethridge seemed content until the Courier-Journal lured him away with a reputed $25,000 a year...
...present time the President's genial press conferences have kept him in favor with the rank and file of reporters, leaving such incorrigibles as Mark Sullivan and Frank Kent standing out like sailing ships at sea. But the spirit of fair play is lacking when particular people are singled out for official venom. If the Democrats get a vote of confidence next fall, they will continue in office with the deep distrust of the large body of people that have fallen victim to the blackjack blows of press-agent Michelson and his White House scribes...
...sainthood is not unanimously acknowledged. Upton Sinclair called him "the playboy of the social revolution." To sympathetic Biographer Granville Hicks. Reed's life is an ennobling example of how revolutionaries are made. Unbiased readers of John Reed will feel that Sinclair's judgment hits nearest the mark, but that Reed was a Promethean playboy and what he played with was fire...