Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...
Last week a roomful of businessmen, New Dealers, bankers and labor leaders met in Washington to talk about the Re-employment of Labor and Capital. Host was the Savings Bank Journal's editor, Milton Harrison (TIME, Sept. 30), who has held six similar forums this year. Moderator was a quiet, dark Sullivan & Cromwell partner, Norris Darrell. By 10 p.m., after six hours of good-and ill-natured debate, the embattled forumists had not made much progress towards mutual understanding. The Government-spenders were still unashamed Government-spenders, the let-industry-do-the-job men were still for letting industry...
...Godkin Lecture Foundation was established in 1908 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and the Nation magazine, "for the delivery and publication of lectures upon the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizens or upon some part of that subject...
Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard University, author of the Pulitzer Prize biography of William James...
...Editor of the CRIMSON...