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...Although Missouri, like Maryland, is considered by most observers likely to go Democratic, last week Joseph Pulitzer's old paper, the liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which supported Wilson in 1916, Cox in 1920, Davis in 1924, Smith in 1928 and Roosevelt in 1932, announced that in 1936 it will oppose the re-election of Roosevelt. Reason: It opposes a government "with vast and centralized authority over the economic life of the nation...
Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
...fortnight 32 minor Election Board officials were under indictment for fraud, wilful neglect of duty. Censured but not indicted were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis Election Board for the "betterment of the public service," appointed a new board...
...impossible to get a fresh picture of Edward VIII which was not a picture of the King & Mrs. Simpson. At a moment when His Majesty was in fact making Balkan policemen, who seized press cameras, give these back to their owners (TIME, Aug. 31), the London Sunday Dispatch declared that it was not printing any such pictures and would also print no stories from the royal yachting cruise "unless these contain matter of proper national interest-such as the whereabouts of the King...
Other major newspapers which have changed type faces for the better in the past twelvemonth: Boston Herald and Traveler and Transcript; Chicago Herald & Examiner and Tribune; Detroit News; Minneapolis Star; Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch...