Word: swope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worn old desks. A big, vociferous typhoon with red hair, blue shirt, trim tailored suit, swept with a round-the-world stride through the office, greeted a dozen reporters by their first names and vanished through a far door, leaving a strange quiet 'behind him. Herbert Bayard Swope, Executive Editor of the World and genius of its flying columns for eight years, was leaving...
...York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
...change to which newspaperdom had been looking forward with curiosity and not without anxiety, for weeks. Some said that with Swope gone the World would feel like a face with all its teeth pulled. A light would be extinguished that nobody else could kindle. There was only one Swope...
When it was announced that Renaud had been selected, curiosity and anxiety changed to wonderment. In personality, experience, attitudes, Renaud was reputed an exact antithesis to Swope...
...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...