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...State, with Tammany Hall in New York City lukewarm to him, Governor Roosevelt has need of solid support from Buffalo. Mrs. Conners' late husband was the Democratic boss of western New York. Although his namesake, her stepson, who has the heritage and power of the Buffalo Courier-Express, keeps his newspaper free from partisanship, the Conners machine still
...BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book...
...most pleased if no point were made of their color. White newspapers, they argue, do not specify the color of white-skins. If color must be designated, they can bear to see "John Doe, Negro," "Jane Doe, colored woman," but never "Jane Doe, Negress." Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) proudly told as important news how the great New York Herald Tribune had apologized for using the word "Negress" in an obscure news item concerning one Susie Lynch. Texas-born City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune was quoted by the Courier's Floyd J. Calvin...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...
Independent producers in the field denounce proration, as do lease-owners. A large group of them have retained onetime (1927-31) Governor Dan Moody as attorney, will seek an injunction against proration. A champion of these discontented forces is Carl L. Estes, editor of the Morning Telegraph and Courier-Times in Tyler, town of 17,113 (pre-boom figure) in the heart of the new field. He has written sharp editorials denouncing proration, caused mass-meetings to be held in almost all the new boomtowns. Nervous, crippled, Editor Estes is 33, has been in the newspaper business 17 years...