Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many an oldster could recall the lusty history of the Anaconda Standard- conceived in anger, nurtured in strife and extravagance; could recall how, as the personal organ of the late famed copper tycoon Marcus Daly, the Standard stood at the turn of the century among the best edited dailies...
Editor of the Repository is an engaging young man named Aubrey Allan Graves, who also edits the Scripps-Howard News (house organ). Every afternoon he transposes certain stories from late editions of the World-Telegram to the front page of the Repository, and adds at least one more from the A. P. night wire. His friends among newsmen congratulate him on his "consistent editorial policy'': the single column of editorials has never been changed since the first issue...
...lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with 26 Governments represented. Here was drafted the Geneva Convention, here adopted the red-crossed white flag. It was in 1877 that the International Committee...
...from the question of who is going to put up how much of the money for the proposed "Christian" daily, there is the question whether Publisher Gannett and the religious sponsors will agree on publishing actualities. Both Messrs. Gannett & High agree that the paper should not be primarily an organ of propaganda for Church or Prohibition...
...sales of hair-straightener to other Negroes, was offered at auction. But in contrast to the eager crowds who scrambled to buy the furnishings last winter (TIME, Dec. 8) only a few desultory bidders appeared at "Villa Lewaro." Their dim enthusiasm became dimmer when the famed $25,000 organ in the house refused to play. The housekeeper who alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than a $50,000 bid could be aroused for the entire property, a lawyer for the estate bid it at $60,000. He spoke vaguely of making the estate...