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...Washington, D. C. a Guild local ignored the Board's letter, nominated Wisconsin-born, 37-year-old, brush-lipped Kenneth Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post. In Denver another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...other candidates declined except Kenneth Crawford. Meanwhile, the New York Guild had looked over Crawford's record, found him eminently suitable, seconded his nomination. So last week, by default, without the formality of an election, Postman Crawford became president of the American Newspaper Guild...
...Guild could have searched long & hard before it found a new president more like Founder Broun. Not physically (a far cry from Broun's genial, hulking mass is six-foot, solid, tweedy Kenneth Crawford) but temperamentally: like Broun, his mind is on the masses, his eyes slant to the Left. One measure of his personal leaning toward Marxism is his book The Pressure Boys, about lobbyists (with many a side crack at publishers and advertisers). In his last sentence, summarizing his beliefs, Crawford writes: "No great progress can be made until the hard-pressed middle classes learn that their...
...XIII, verse 1): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity. . . ." Often his daughter Dorothy heard him. She became an evangelist, too. Last month, aged 75, when crossing a Manhattan street against a red light, Frank Clarry was killed by Negro Motorist Moe Crawford. Moe was charged with homicide, clapped into the Tombs. Dorothy Clarry got the charge dismissed. Said she: "The poor fellow wasn't to blame." She visited his wife and four children, found Mrs. Crawford ailing, all five hungry. For Mrs. Crawford she got a doctor; for the family, food...
Last week Moe Crawford faced the final count against him - driving a car with defective brakes. Found guilty, he was fined $5. On hand with the $5 was Frank Clarry's daughter. When the magistrate told her that only four hours of the alternative one-day jail sentence remained, she did the next best thing, sent coffee and sandwiches to remorseful Moe Crawford...