Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk answered, and what she heard made her face crease in annoyance. "Look," she said, "I'm sick and tired of the 'Don't-give-me-that-city-editor-stuff' argument. This is the city editor." Outsiders might find it hard to believe, but Agness Underwood was sitting on one of the hottest seats in town. She was the first woman city editor in Los Angeles newspaper history, the first in the Hearst empire and one of the first on a metropolitan daily anywhere...
...year; in the process he virtually reduced the job to schedule-shuffling while he bossed the show from a city-room desk. What Campbell needed was somebody who could put up with him, and if need be, talk back to him. In long-suffering, trumpet-voiced "Aggie" Underwood he thought...
...Flowers, Please. After five months as assistant city editor, Aggie had beaten down most of the local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last week: "Aggie's not a woman. She's a newspaperman. No one would dare send her flowers on this occasion. She'd throw 'em at whoever...
...years which followed 1922 made the World War I chaos, which the graduating seniors sought to escape, look fairly mild. But in their final year at Harvard, '22 did its level best to attain the three alms of Senator Underwood and the Attorney General...
...quarter of a century ago, at Commencement time, 520 seniors members of the class of 1922 were welcomed into the company of educated men by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. The same afternoon they heard Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama and the Attorney General of Massachusetts plead for the continuance of American traditions, internationalism, and disarmament...