Word: stal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial page, over which the late Frank I. Cobb (TIME, Dec. 31) presided. He took, too, a spacious office, at the far end of the city room, through the length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope decided that the Democrats would hold their 1924 Convention in Manhattan. At once the idea became "front page stuff" on the World. The rest of Manhattan smiled, knowing that the home of Tammany and Wall Street was not a convention town...