Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When beardless, 32-year-old Leon Sedov, editor of a violently anti-Stalin Paris Russian-language paper, and son of the world's No. 1 exile, tuft-bearded Leon Trotsky,* died last week in Paris following an operation for an "intestinal obstruction." the world press was less interested in the death than in what heavy-hearted Trotsky...
...first issue of TIME were fortunately armed with valor and a good journalistic idea, for they plunged into an editorial wilderness. Whereas TIME now draws on the services of 400 of its own correspondents all over the world; is a member (one of the biggest clients) of both Associated Press...
...United Press; has a score of expert researchers; employs another score of specialists to operate a "morgue" containing 12,000 reference books, and where 1,400,000 reports and articles are filed under 110,000 headings; in 1923 TIME'S news source was a big bundle of newspapers dropped at the office door morning and evening. Whereas TIME today has a staff of 20-odd full-time associate and contributing editor-writers. TIME'S editors 15 years ago had a staff of three or four full-time associates (two of whom frequently wrote...
...evening that the first issue went to press (and many press nights thereafter), the entire full-time staff got into a taxicab, carrying the entire editorial reference library (Who's Who, World Almanac, Congressional Directory} and drove to the printers on Manhattan's 11th Avenue...
Death came, as it must to all men, to Briton Hadden in 1929. Ill for two months with a streptococcus infection, he died on February 27-six years almost to the hour after he and Henry Luce had sent to press the first issue of the first newsmagazine...