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...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...
...first assignments for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1923, Cub Reporter Milburn Peter Akers followed a sack of potatoes from farmer to housewife to find out why they were so expensive. He handed in a story that had plenty of potatoes but no meat. He had failed to question critically each middleman's excuse for jacking up the price. When the city editor read the piece, he tore it to shreds and bellowed: "You let everybody impose on your credulity!" "On the way back to my desk," recalls Akers, "I looked up credulity in the dictionary...
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...
...Columbus. A similar ban at Ohio State University, enacted by the school's trustees in 1951 under continual prodding by the conservative Columbus Dispatch, is under increasing fire from other Ohio newspapers and the university faculty. Some 300 students protested the rule in April through picketing and sit-in demonstrations. More than 400 teachers have signed petitions calling for its repeal...
...Real Raid. Simon is a constant and shrewd reader of profit and loss statements. He looks for companies with broad stock ownership, shares undervalued in relation to book values, sluggish management and sickly earnings. If he finds a likely case, he may dispatch aides to probe the situation deeper, use his contacts in Wall Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather...