Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hobo but I have had sufficient contacts with hobos to be surprised at the definition given by you in the footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
...turn of the century found the young firm of Doubleday, Page & Co. about to publish a new magazine. Partner Walter Hines Page was to be editor. The magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
...name chosen was World's Work. Able Editor Page needed little assistance and young Russell Doubleday turned his attention to the book-publishing end of the firm's business. But always he kept an interested eye on World's Work, wrote articles for it, was its advertising manager for a season...
Walter Hines Page died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World...
...histories of Doubleday, Page & Co. and World's Work have not been parallel. The company has always prospered. The magazine has, as magazines will, languished from time to time...