Word: bushrod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Succeeding Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse Post-Standard, Foxhunter Stahlman brings a dynamic, self-confident personality to the ANPA's presidency. He broke a strike which attempted to unionize the Banner's mechanical force seven years ago. Inheritor from his grandfather,* German Immigrant Edward Bushrod Stahlman, of both the Banner and his grandfather's famous quick-temper, Publisher Stahlman sometimes bursts violently out of his office into the city room waving aloft a copy of the Banner and shouting, "Who made this damned mistake?" Operating in a poorly paying newspaper town, he drives himself as hard...
...because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss. Author Bradford swears he has made up the names of all his characters. Mersery Pillow's mother called her that after the planet Mercury. Brigadier-General Bushrod Johnson Potter was what Mersery and Lafe called their firstborn...
Died. Edward Bushrod Stahlman. 86, oldtime German-born southern newspaper man, owner & editor since 1895 of the Nashville Banner, onetime vice president of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; after long illness; at Nashville...