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...Carroll Binder, chief editorial writer of the Minneapolis Tribune, writing in the American Mercury, declared that "possession of a Pulitzer Prize does not guarantee that the holder is among the best [newspapermen]. Nor is the lack of a Pulitzer Prize evidence that a veteran newspaperman is not among the most capable or fearless." Binder put the blame for bad choices on the 13-man Pulitzer advisory board, mostly publishing executives of big newspapers. (The board meets annually at the April convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association...
Eight for Seven. The real trouble is logrolling, said Newsman Binder. In 1947, seven of the nine journalism prizes went to newspapers or wire services represented on the board. The New York Times has won 20 Pulitzers since 1918 - eight of them in the seven years since the Times's twice-Pulitzered Arthur Krock joined the board. The Associated Press has won eleven Pulitzers, the United Press none...
Hard Times. Some of the worried aristocrats in Merida's little country club might well have concluded that this was where they came in. In twelve years after World War I, International Harvester Co. and other U.S. makers of binder twine used war surpluses to force henequen prices down from 20? to 2? a Ib. The millionaires of Mérida, whose fortunes kept castles in Spain and France as well as along Mérida's broad Paseo de Montejo, went broke. The Cámaras turned their mansion at Mérida into a hotel...
...rope. India's jute made better bags. On top of everything else, President Cárdenas enforced Mexico's agrarian laws, and the largest land owners found their plantations cut to 300 acres apiece. By 1938, Yucatán, which once held all the world's binder twine market, was down to a 20% share...
...last week's storm warnings foreshadow another economic hurricane like 1920's? If so, Macari and other forward-looking henequeneros thought they could weather it. There are new uses for Yucatán fibers in the U.S. to make up for the decreasing use of binder twine. With a little help from the industrial-minded Mexican Government, in subsidies and export-tax concessions, Yucatán's factories might get a share of such business. The serried rows of agave would still stretch green across the Yucatán flatland...