Word: edition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
...three years mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun has been feuding with his little boss, Roy Howard, president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. It all started when Editor Howard turned against the New Deal, leaving Broun to go his leftish way alone. The World-Telegram began to cut, edit and omit Broun columns. Broun hit back at Roy Howard in his own paper, wrote an indignant piece about him for The New Republic...
...seems important to know who will rule us after we win this difficult war. Re articles in the Read Digest Dec. '39 p. 5, N.Y. Times June '30 F 9, N. Y. Post June 8 '34 N. Y. Sun Nov. 18 '33 edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort...
...After Raymond Moley began to edit Today (now, with him, merged with Newsweek), he had a chat with Franklin Roosevelt. "Did I realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...
Toward week's end, CBS, MBS and NBC got together, agreed to "edit" the news (i.e., avoid repetitive bulletins, pair up varying reports, sift announcements from foreign radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...