Word: compasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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surveys have shown, explained Jansen, that few people know the exact facts involved in current legislation, even in bills such as the Taft-Hartley Law which has been in the headlines for two years. "We aim to bring together in small compass and in simple language all the arguments pro and con, together with other possible solutions and the historical background of the major bills so that they may be kept for ready reference as they are discussed in Congress...
...resumed her maiden name recently (with the prefix Mrs.) "to avoid confusion" with Wa-laceite. Ted, now editor of the new Manhattan tabloid, Daily Compass...
...editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...
...Compass will start out on a modest 24-page scale, pointing its needle to what Thackrey calls "the non-Communist left." Working as publisher, editor and managing editor, Wallaceite Thackrey thinks he can make money on 65,000 circulation and whatever advertising he can get. His editorial staff of 25 will include Medical Writer Albert Deutsch and Washington Correspondent I. F. ("Izzy") Stone, both survivors of PM and the Star, whom Thackrey harbored at the Post. The Compass' sport editor will be Stanley Woodward, onetime head of the New York Herald Tribune sport staff, lately editor of the short...
...World. Ted Thackrey met Mrs. Elaine for the first time about three weeks ago, through a mutual friend who intended to put up half the money for the Compass. When the friend backed out, Mrs. Elaine coolly agreed to put up both halves. For around $2,000,000 she will get all the preferred stock; Thackrey will hold 51% of the common, and complete control...