Word: strothers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hines Page died in 1918 after serving as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Succeeding him as Editor of World's Work have been his son Arthur Wilson Page, Burton Jesse Hendrick, Edgar French Strother, and most lately, Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of Ladies Home Journal. Last year Doubleday, Page & Co. ceased to be exclusively the Doubleday family business, by merging with the business of Book Publisher George H. Doran. Last week, in an objective sort of way, Doubleday, Doran & Co. announced that Russell Doubleday was to step in and edit World...
Last week President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...
...Strother achieved a Washington reputation on the World's Work in the days when it dealt seriously (though safely) with politics. The World's Work, under Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, now devotes itself to popular business tales, leaving to President Hoover the Strother erudition...
...summary: ARMY HARVARD Mansfield, l.f. r.f., Wenner Kruger, r.f. l.f., Mahady, Ward Strother, c. c., Burns, Upton Malloy, l.g. r.g., Rex, Harper Messinger, Seimmerman, r.g. l.g., Farrell, Jaffe...
...Score--Army 37, Harvard 24. Goals--Strother 7, Mansfield 4, Malloy 2, Seimmerman 2, Gruger, Messinger, Wenner 4, Farrell, Mahady. Fouls--Kruger 2, Malloy, Wenner 5, Farrell 3, Burns 2, Mahady, Rex. Referee--Toby. Umpire--Edward Hastings. Time--Two 20-minute periods...