Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...
...refer to George S. Johns, fighting editor, grand old man among American journalists. Thirty-five years "Editor of the Editorial Page" of the Post-Dispatch and at present very much alive and enjoying the position of associate editor of that paper...
TIME is glad to pay belated tribute to able Father George Sibley Johns. Short, genial, brilliant Editor Johns, now 76, still turns out an occasional editorial for the Post-Dispatch. He joined forces with the elder Pulitzer when, as editor of an opposition paper, he conducted a vigorous editorial campaign to aid Pulitzer's suit against his partner, Charles H. Jones. He went to the Post-Dispatch in 1883, served as dramatic critic, city editor, managing editor, editor of the editorial page...
...hundred and eight convicts escaped from North Carolina prisons and prison camps last month. Each day into the office of the Durham Herald-Sun ticked A. P. dispatches from Raleigh naming the runaways, giving details. For 24 July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a new headline to put over such repetitious news. By the 25th he gave up and subheaded "TODAY'S ESCAPES" over the Raleigh dispatch. By last week "TODAY'S ESCAPES" had become one of the most familiar standing heads in the Herald-Sim. Under it last week was chronicled...
Also on the staff are Public Utilities Expert Cam Shalton, Sleuth John T. Rogers (who in 1931 got a bonus of more than $6,000 for solving the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly Jr.), Political Commentator Curtis Belts. When a big story breaks the Post-Dispatch sends so many men out to cover it, that rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among...