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...speakers at the convention was Marshall Field, backer of Chicago's Sun and New York's PM. He urged the Negro press to go easy on the race issue. The advice was interesting, since he is also the backer of a Negro paper, a four-month-old Harlem tabloid called The People's Voice (to which last week he extended 'another $25,000 of credit')" [TIME, June...
Powell. One of the speakers at the convention was Marshall Field, backer of Chicago's Sun and New York's PM. He urged the Negro press to go easy on the race issue. The advice was interesting, since he is also the backer of a Negro paper, a four-month-old Harlem tabloid called The People's Voice (to which last week he extended "another $25,000 of credit...
...backfield would have been built around the red-haired McNicol, and he, together with the lanky Morgan, would have given Coach Harlow an excellent passing combination. Page's value as a line backer cannot be overestimated...
...Senate, however, several of those in the Senate and in the press who last year were isolationists took up the cudgels for Senator Walsh. Missouri's Bennett Clark demanded an immediate Senate investigation of "the old hussy who runs the New York Post" (38-year-old Dorothy Schiff Backer). Senators Wheeler and Nye denounced the Post's exposé as a "diabolical attempt" to smear all isolationists. Senator Nye said he knew for a fact that "a secret society" had been operating for two years to gather smear material...
Dorothy S. Backer (elected publisher in her sick husband's stead a fortnight ago) said the Post made the change because she was impressed, while commuting, with the difficulty readers had in trying to handle a full-sized newspaper. She was able to announce a highly satisfactory result: the Post's 208,000 circulation jumped. 30% within a week as a tabloid, passed the 235;625 circulation it had when the Backers bought it from J. David Stern. Publisher Stern pushed his circulation with premiums-from records to reprints of Van Gogh. The Backers, who have poured more...