Word: swope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York World. "They're news, aren't they?"?Herbert B. Swope, Executive Editor...
...National Civic Federation, executives and working men ate side by side in the Roosevelt, new Manhattan hotel. "Eliminate Waste-Minimize Controversy," was the catchword. The speakers: Herbert Hoover; William Green, who succeeded the late Samuel Gompers as President of the American Federation of Labor (TIME, Dec. 29) ; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co. (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS) ; D. L. Cease, of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Marcus M. Marks, veteran clothing-merchant and labor-arbiter...
...with the song, the Teuton princeling profered ten cents. Baline, unaccustomed to the ways of royalty, staggered back. The riff-raff stared; up stepped a ruddy reporter, overawed both Prince and waiter with a cataclysm of questions. Next day, Berlin received his first publicity. The reporter, one Herbert Bayard Swope, now edits The New York World...
Herbert Bayard Swope, vigorous Executive Editor of The New York World, contended the opposite: that printing crime news is a legitimate part of a newspaper's function, that it arouses communities to fight crime, serving as a definite check on evil doing. "Expression," he affirmed, "can never be so bad as suppression...
Finally to annihilate Mr. Barton in this friendly argument, Editor Swope closed with the adduction of Thomas Jefferson's remark that, if it were left to him to decide "whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter...