The Washington times., 1924-06-07
TINES TO HAVE
fine STAFF At
Cop. MEET
Convention Details to Be Cow
cred by Most Brilliant Corps
Of Writers Ever Assembled
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Cleveland today to furnish readers
Of The Washington Times with the
moves on the political chess board
that constitutes the Republican ma
tional convention.
Notable stats have been pre-
scented at other national conventions
ana events Of epochal importance,
but the modern newspaper world
has meyer before witnessed such a
perfection of detail and arrange.
ment as was presented in Cleveland
today by the organization Of the
service to be rendered Tha Wash.
ington Times through the Interna-
t1onal News Service.
Sixty thousand miles Of telegraph
wire, linked up into one gigantic
circuit, and extending from Adaine
70 California, and from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, will carry the
news Of President Coolidge's non1i-
nation and kindred events to the
waiting public that Is served by The
Washington Times and other news.
papers, affiliated with the Iuterna.
tional News Service. Stretched out
in q single line these thousands Of
miles Of telegraph wires would ex-
tend nearly two and q half times
around the world.
Corps Of Expert Writers.
The human mechanism through
which the moves, inside and outside
the convention hall, the hotels and
the conference rooms, will be re-
ported with almost instantaneous
speed. Is composed Of men long skill
ed in the recording and interpreting
Of great national and international
events, and an expert corps Of the
fastest< telegraph operators in this
country, which means the world, as
well.
There win be men sending their
dots and dashes from convention
hall next Tuesday VINO are capable
OF transmitting 5000 words an
hour.
The. staff has been assembled and
the arrangements completed under
the direction of M. Koenigsberg,
president Of the international News
Service, and George G.. Shor, its
editor and manager, and they win
personally supervise operations dur.
ing convention week.
Some Of the Stars.
There win be Senator Medill Nc.
Cormick Nep.l OF Illinois, who not
only Is q distinguished political
leader OF long experience and fam
liar with the inner workings Of the
Republican party, but who also is
an editor and author Of note. He
needs little introduction.
There viii be Jack Lait, q veteran
newspaper man, of whom 1t has
been said that he Is one Of the six
best reporters and descriptive
writers In the newspaper business
today.
There will be Helen Rowland, one
OF the most brilliant Of later day
newspaper women. She has long
been known as the author Of the
famous Sayings OF Mrs. Solomon"
There win be Ray Long, whose
genius for writing and editing could
not be held by the newspaper world,
but who graduated into the editor
ship Of the Cosmopolitan Magazine,
and who in that position skins the
cream Of the worlds writing talent.
There win be o. o. Mcintyre,
brilliant magazine writer and whirn-
steal commentator on New York life,
who Is known to and knows all the
distinguished men who win attend
the big conventions.
Others ON the List.
The news staff for the convention
is headed by e. Barry .Faris, associ-
ate editor of the International News
Service, who has attended and al.
rcted the news gathering and
writing at every great national
event this country has witnessed in
recent years. And it win include:
George r. Holmes, chief of the
Washington bureau. who needs no
introduction to the readers Of The
Washington Times. Holmes story
on the burial Of the Unknown Sol.
der at Arlington Cemetery has. been
rated by editors everywhere as one
Of the classics of newspaper writ.
ing. His work in reporting the sad
events surrounding the sudden death
of the late President Harding
brought him additional fame and
stamped him an one of the foremost
newspaper writers In America to.
day.
David M. Church. former Wash.
ington correspondent but more re.
Gently chief of the London bureau.
who was brought hack to this courl.
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