Word: schurz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning and evening) of Philadelphia. Last January he reached out to Manhattan and bought the New York Evening Post. In taking control of the Post he took possession of an heirloom. On the list of its editors and owners were Alex ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper...
...followed as editor by Parke Godwin, who later became his son-in-law. Later John Bigelow took the helm, and after Bryant's death, in 1878, Godwin returned as editor. Three years later Henry Villard, the railroad builder, bought the paper. Under him as editors were Carl Schurz (hero of the German revolution of 1848, and one of those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation...
...Schurz 2G.B...
...Emeritus of Harvard, Colonel Higginson, Honorable John D. Long, Governor of Massachusetts, President Hadley of Yale, Governor Wolcott, President Patten of Princeton, Governor Guild and others perhaps hardly less well known. Among the judges who rendered the decisions we find the names of President Seth Low of Columbia, Carl Schurz, General Francis A. Walker, Professor Brander Matthews, Bishop Lawrence, Elihu Root, Edward J. Phelps, Ambassador to England, Judge Alton B. Parker, Honorable Oscar S. Strauss and others...