Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ripsnorting, eloquent paper was the Courier-Journal in the old days when Colonel Henry Watterson, founder and first editor, ran it. ''Marse Henry" used to end his World War I editorials with the chant: "To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs...
Editor of the Courier-Journal since last January is lanky, solemn Herbert Agar, 43, onetime diplomat, novelist, critic, historian. For the last six months the Courier-Journal has been a fiery advocate of aid to Britain. Editor Agar was one of 30 U. S. citizens who announced last June that they were in favor of immediate war on Germany...
...after Adolf Hitler announced his new pact with Japan, the Courier-Journal declared: "We must give more and more aid to the British. We must send them planes, tanks and motor boats as fast as they are produced. . . . We must give them more of our overage destroyers . . . whenever they are needed. So long as Britain holds out, the German-Italian-Japanese alliance is frustrated...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...
...late, great Adolph Simon Ochs started at 15 as a printer's devil on a Knoxville paper, worked for a while on Watterson's Courier-Journal, acquired the Chattanooga Times in 1878 (when he was 20) with $250 of borrowed capital. In Chattanooga, Publisher Ochs amassed the fortune with which he bought the New York Times 18 years later...