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...last week President Hoover kept his regular appointment with the Press. As correspondents encircled his desk, there was talk but no quotable news. Next morning, however, most metropolitan newspapers in the land ran almost identical front-page stories from Washington. It was the kind of dispatch President Hoover was glad to see in print, though nowhere was he personally mentioned. Knowing readers suspected White House inspiration, under the Hoover system of supplying correspondents with "background" which they are not privileged to attribute directly to the President. The gist of the story was as follows...
...most adroit politicians of the shirt-sleeved South, Governor Sterling has worked long and hard to reach his present eminence. In his home city of Houston he made a reputation as a port developer, a Y. M. C. A. benefactor and the able publisher of the Post-Dispatch. In 1927 Governor Dan Moody named him chairman of the State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated...
...materially contributed ideas and information are supposed to include (though each diplomatically denies it) Farmer Murphy and Drew Pearson of the Baltimore Sun, Robert S. Allen of the Christian Science Monitor, George Abell of the Washington Daily News, Charles Ross and Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ray Tucker of the New York World-Telegram and Ruby Black, freelance...
Died. Charles F. Fischer, 65, president of the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen (Scripps-Howard), which is engaged in a circulation war with its rivals, the Ohio State Journal and the Dispatch (TIME, Aug. 24); of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; in Columbus...
...Times printed a column-and-a-half story and an editorial on the Knox purchase. The Herald Tribune and Sun gave more than half a column each. Both mentioned prominently the Colonel's former high position with Hearst. But Hearst's American trimmed the A. P. dispatch to five sentences under a small headline: NEW ENGLAND MEN BUY CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. All reference to Hearst was omitted...