Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was a bit much for many newspapers. The Miami Herald dropped one column, in which the editors counted what they considered to be several errors of fact or judgment, and heavily edited two others. Other papers-the Milwaukee Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Press and Philadelphia Bulletin-decided against running at least three of the columns...
Some newspapers have sent staffers to schools.and conferences to bone up on the intricacies of city government; others have assigned reporters permanently to their city's urban renewal and anti-poverty programs. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is training reporters not to stick to a particular city beat but to move with ease from city to surrounding counties; its energetic city hall reporter, Ed Grimsley, roams the U.S. as well as Canada in search of novel solutions to city problems. The Milwaukee Journal runs a fat Sunday section, Home, which covers all facets of the city building boom; many...
...benefits that flow from political power, the Deep South's Ne groes have for decades sought a better life elsewhere: in the slums of Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, D.C. -and Los Angeles. Now there was at least a hope of change and perhaps a reason to stay. With Dispatch. Grasping at that hope, thousands of Negroes were flocking to register in the nine counties in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi where the Gov ernment has posted federal examiners to implement the voting law. They came last week in battered autos and char tered buses and on foot. They stood...
...effect of the law was felt immediately, and Johnson made eminently clear his determination to move with "dispatch in enforcing this act." At his orders...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...