Word: edition
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edit the cables from Ingraham, Hersey and Belden, to piece together the torrent of news pouring in over our AP wires, to supervise the writing of all our invasion stories-all this is part of the Battlefronts assignment of Senior Editor Charles Wertenbaker, whose own first hand feel of the invasion news comes from three months at the front with the American troops now fighting in Sicily...
They also edit versions of 24 commercial radio shows for the troops. They cut out all advertising ballyhoo, delete painful absurdities, like Eddie Cantor's "Mad Russian," which might be fine fodder for Axis propagandists...
President Woods thought the utterance was "bad radio," "bad taste," "undemocratic," and said so. So did many an angry voter, who wrote in saying he would vote as he damn well pleased. Woods then ordered his news editors to edit all the Blue's 15 commentators more carefully, reminded them of the long-standing industry rules concerning controversial topics on commercial programs...
...local draft board is, tell others where the town's lawyer might be, tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item...
...Editor Ayers wanted proof. With Ayers's assent Bradley then carefully cooked up a fake wire story, in whose every line fantastic misstatements were flatly and plausibly inserted. He had it mimeographed, gave a copy to each of the four girls around the copy desk, told them to edit it and write a head (see below...