Word: seltzers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seltzer on Right & Wrong...
...ever the American public were given a heaping dish of nourishing food for thought, it was served up in your Aug. 27 reprint of Louis B. Seltzer's editorial in the Cleveland -Press...
...Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, probably knows his readers better and talks to them with more immediacy than any other leading U.S. newspaperman. Noting that the U.S. air of 1951 was saturated with moral scandal, moral doubt and moral confusion, Editor
...Seltzer sat at his typewriter and, in 15 minutes, banged out an editorial that raised uncomfortable questions about the state of the U.S. at a moment of world responsibility. His piece touched a nerve: in the following week, 1,000 people had tried to reach him by phone or written him letters or stopped him on the street to talk about it. Forty publications have reprinted it. Seltzer's piece, titled Can't We Tell Right From Wrong...
...bright and eager wife, Eda V. Seltzer (who supplies much of the push in the family), kept her schoolteaching job in Denver right up until her husband was transferred to Washington in 1944 (as associate administrator of the Farm Security Administration). Life among the high officials, diplomats and cocktail-sippers of the capital has not damaged the Brannans' pronounced, almost frugal, simplicity. Brannan's conversation is still punctuated by "Lordy" and "gosh," and an occasional ungrammatical "he don't." He and Eda Brannan live in a plain, two-room Washington apartment, with no children and no servant...