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Public Power. That is just what the Sacramento Bee cost when Eleanor's grandfather James McClatchy helped found it 95 years ago. An Irish immigrant and forty-niner, McClatchy flopped as a miner before he went into journalism and struck gold. When he died in 1883 and son Charles Kenny McClatchy took over as editor, the Bee was flying high...
...crusaded for public power and arbitration of labor disputes (still favorite Bee campaigns), exposed corruption in state and local government, lashed out at the political power of the Southern Pacific railroad, a big advertiser. "The ship of journalism," said C.K., "is too often steered from the countinghouse and not from the editorial office." At one time, he had 19 libel suits on his hands...
Once C.K. ran a headline which said: THANK GOD THE LEGISLATURE IS SOON TO ADJOURN . . . SACRAMENTANS SHOULD ALL BE JOYFUL. California's legislators were so mad at the Bee that they tried to shift the capital from Sacramento. Roared back McClatchy: "When it shall come to pass in this seagirt, sun-kissed and mountain-embraced State of California that a newspaper shall not open its lips against a gang which a misguided public have molded into legislators, then it is time that we make genuflection before them and lay our bellies low in the dust as they pass...
...never spoke to Teitelbaum by phone or otherwise," Grunewald said. "I don't know the son of a bee. If he's good enough to pick up the chips for Capone, he's . .." At. that point, Maloney seemed to think his client had said enough, so he finished the sentence: ". . . he's good enough for Mrs. Menkin, I suppose...
...Bee is not president of L.I.U., but basketball coach. However, Mr. Walker's points are certainly well taken...