Word: renaud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frisco. Whatever effect his opinions might have on the color of the World's columns, voluntary or involuntary, it was agreed that in all the technicalities of the job Renaud was well equipped to succeed his vociferous predecessor...
...worked with him declared that Renaud was violently anti-Al Smith, while Swope's lusty voice has long spouted praises of that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
...California, following his graduation from Leland Stanford University in 1903, that Renaud got his early newspaper training. For nine years he worked on San Francisco dailies, becoming dramatic critic for the Bulletin and the Chronicle. In 1912 he went to New York with a letter of introduction from Will Irwin and got a job on the oldtime Globe...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...