Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...
Judges of the contest were Erwin D. Conham, editor in chief of the Christian Science Monitor, and Edward Morton, associate editor of the Atlantic Monthly...
When I applied to the Christian Science Monitor for a job once. ... I [said] that I had been brought up a Unitarian. My questioner brightened perceptibly and said: "Well, that's not so bad. Then you don't really have any convictions about anything...
...editors chuckled at this smooth doubletalk. Cracked Chairman Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Newspapermen the world over are very much alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
...speaking, Editor Canham was following the precept of the Monitor's late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that the editor should give the public what it wants. . . . There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will...