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...Droit, respected French-speaking Ottawa daily (circ.: 19,000), was fined $200 for a column generally ascribed to Editor Charles Gautier denouncing Britain's "murderous raids" on "our dear France." (P.S.: Editor Gautier lost...
...Vancouver (B.C.) Sun, second biggest paper in Western Canada (circ.: 72,000), got a bigger fine ($300) but did not feel bad about it. In scorching articles on British Columbia defenses, the Sun had accused the Government of practically every dereliction in the calendar. Three sentences particularly were singled out by the Government as "information useful to the enemy": "There are no planes, no guns, no men. We have thrown up the sponge. There are no modern training methods...
...Terrible Tribune. In his 27 years as publisher of the biggest full-size U.S. newspaper (circ. 1,076,866), Colonel McCormick has acquired such titles as "Lord McCormick, the Earl of Wheaton," the "Duke of Chicago," the "Midwest Medici." Once called "the greatest mind of the 14th Century," he has inspired at least one high-spirited skit...
Bought by his father just before the Klondike Gold Rush, the Times grew with Seattle (circ. 103,434). Blethen wrote its main editorials, originated its layouts, cartoons, slashing civic campaigns, invented several of its printing processes...
...newspaper lights the way of freedom," was the slogan of National Newspaper Week, celebrated in 5,000 U.S. towns and cities. Most telling of many thousand expressions of the idea: the Phoenix Arizona Republic (circ.: 35,823) appeared with its first and second pages blank except for a small box containing the words: ". . . This is all the news you would be able to read if the daily newspaper were not uncensored, unfettered, in free America...