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...wake. He returned home jingling the Democratic National Convention of 1924 in his pocket. The story of that event really began 42 years and 10 days earlier, when the cyclonic Swope bounded into the world at St. Louis. He traveled the reportorial route via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, The New York Herald to the "city desk" of The New York World. The War came and he went to Germany for two years as correspondent for the World. He wrote a book, Inside the German Empire. When he came back, the city desk was no longer a large...
...build a greater and more beautiful city. In 1907 Mr. Grasty sold the News to Frank A. Munsey, who retained it until last year, when it was resold to Mr. Hearst. For a year Mr. Grasty traveled abroad. Then he bought a half interest in The St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press and in a short time revolutionized it much as he had The Baltimore News. He did not remain in St. Paul long, however; he returned to Baltimore, (1910) and bought a controlling interest in The Sun, a large and successful paper. Two months later he produced The Evening...
...international scheme for the immediate dispatch of food, etc, to Central Europe...
According to a cable dispatch, an old gentleman of 80 recently climbed the dingy stairs to the students' salon. He carried a picture in his arm and asked to have it hung. The old gentleman was Claude Monet (TIME, March 17, Aug. 6). The picture was his reply to reports that, blind, he would never paint again...
Miss Helen Wills: " The New York Evening Post, in a dispatch from Berkeley, Cal., ignorantly referred to me as ' Miss Hazel Wills...