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Revere was already an old hand at revolution. He was the Boston Committee of Safety's most trusted courier, had ridden thousands of miles. He rode four times to Philadelphia; he could always be trusted to say the right thing. He rode to Durham N.H. to order a raid on the British fort at Portsmouth. Tired, he slept through the raid. He took part in the Boston Tea Party which "spread a windrow of tea from Boston all the way to Dorchester." Without sleep he started for Philadelphia to report what had happened...
Pegler. The publishers were smoking mad at ''that archtraitor Westbrook Pegler." In his April 28 column Pegler had damned the two biggest Negro papers-the Pittsburgh Courier (circ. 130,000) and the Chicago Defender (circ. 83,000)-for exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous...
Pegler was branded as the bellwether of fascist "agents of the enemy and traitors to democracy." But when it came resolution time, no anti-Pegler resolution materialized. Cried cocky little Ira Lewis (publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier): "Who is this guy Pegler? I never heard...
Clinton, Tenn. In their weekly Courier-News, Clinton folks looked at the picture of Joe F. York, grave and unsmiling in his Army uniform, his hat tilted proudly to the right. They read the letter his family had received a few days before he was reported dead or captured on Bataan...
Herbert Agar, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill, said, "Our most numerous allies in this war the colored peoples...if we lose those allies--if we lost Asia--we are likely to lose the war. The only way to keep Asia on our side is to show that we believe in the American ideal that all men are created equal...