Word: editor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Although Roy Atherion '44, editor-in-chief of the Red Book, has set no definite date for distribution, he has said that the Register will be published the first week in December. The uncertainty about the date is caused by the fact that about 40 Freshman pictures have not yet been taken...
...Americans, given a full opportunity to judge, have rejected the position of the extreme isolationists," Charles H. Taylor, associate professor of History and tutor in the Department of History, argued in a letter printed in the New York Times recently. His argument was directed against an unnamed newspaper editor...
...editorial which was refuted, accused America of "leaving the meaning of self-government in the ditch," and that the "real issue" was whether a policy leading the country into war should be continued. Hence the responsibilities of self-government have been surrendered, the editor deduced...
Professor Taylor replied by pointing out that "political campaigns have often failed to focus the vote on what later became clear as the underlying issue; the campaigns of 1860 and 1916 are examples in point, and on the editor's criteria we have abandoned the democratic process long...
Inconclusive as this battle of words was, it proved that Election Day had brought no truce between the New Deal and the press, and it set up a line along which they might be preparing to fight it out. Said Editor Herbert Agar of the pro-Roosevelt Louisville Courier-Journal: "If I understand the Secretary correctly, I do not think he has a strong point. There is a lot to say against the press, but the fact that it is against an individual does not prove it is not free...