Word: swope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Bayard Swope, dynamic Executive Editor of The New York World, is obviously a man to take exception to such talk. When the editors of Collier's showed him What Difference Does It Make?, Editor Swope shouted for a stenographer and dictated It Makes a Lot of Difference. "Perhaps if my friend Bruce Barton were a more consistent reader of newspapers, he would not have committed himself to so many fallacies as he does in this article. Because one item in his paper was unimportant, he argues that all items are unimportant . . . Not so long ago some shots were...
...four speakers at the Union last year were President A. L. Lowell '77, on the choosing of a career; the Honorable C. W. Wickersham '06, of New York, attorney general of the United States under President Taft; Gerald Swope, of New York, president of the General Electric Company; and Bishop William Lawrence '71, of Boston. The talks over the two years have discussed as careers, public life and the law, business, the ministry, engineering, teaching, government, and the opportunities in medicine, surgery and public health...
...been Managing Editor of the Boston Traveller of the Boston Journal, of the New York Tribune, of The Nation; and General Manager of La Prensa of New York. ?H. B. Swope of The New York World...
Frank A. Munsey, Publisher: "At a Manhattan dinner which I attended, together with Editor Swope of The New York World, conversation and speeches agitated the idea of getting the G. O. P. convention for New York in 1928. It was urged by many who heard of this dinner that the Republicans would not suffer from the chief pestilence that fell upon the Democrats in Madison Square Garden-namely, Tammany hooligans in the galleries...
...Scythia (Cunard)?Willis H. Booth, Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Co. of N. Y.; Elmer A. Sperry, Gyroscope President; Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric...