NY Times Turner Catledge Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1971

  

"New York Times" Turner Catledge Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1971. He was managing editor from 1952 to 1964, when.

He became the paper's first executive editor. Retiring in 1968, he served briefly on the board of The New York Times company. Catledge was born on March 17, 1901 to his parents, Lee. Johnston Catledge and Willie Anna Turner, and older sister Bessie Lee Catledge.

On his grandfather's 900-acre 3.6 km. He was three, his family moved to. After graduating from Philadelphia High School in 1918, he enrolled at. First news job was at fourteen years old for the.

Him another job but instead he became editor of the. 1922, and later managing editor and mechanical superintendent of the. Who were most active during this time period; in.

Response, the Klan burned down the newspaper plant. Catledge lost his job due to the. The city's daily newspaper. Finally, in the spring of 1929, Catledge began. Until later when he began work in the company's. Bureau as a reporter covering the.

In the winter of 1941, he left the New York Times. To become chief correspondent and later Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago Sun. 1943, he was rehired by The New York Times as a national correspondent. The remainder of his career, he worked for the.

Managing editor, executive editor, and last as the company's vice president.