Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief item in old Joseph Pulitzer's creed, stated daily since his 60th birthday in the Post-Dispatch masthead, is: ". . . A true newspaper is one that would never be satisfied with merely printing news. ..." The true importance of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not that it is one of the six largest daily advertising media in the country or that it prints more news and handles it better than any of its competitors, but that its editorial page is a great battering ram of influence on the public opinion of the Midwest. Responsibility for Post-Dispatch editorials...
Stoop-shouldered, scholarly, homely "Charley" Ross had been chief of the Post-Dispatch's Washington bureau since 1918. Graduating from the University of Missouri in 1905, he worked for three years on various newspapers including the Post-Dispatch, then taught copy reading and editorial writing in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri from 1908 to 1918. In 1916 he took a year off, went to Australia, worked on the Melbourne Herald. In Washington no correspondent was more respected by his colleagues than Ross. In 1931 that respect became almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer...
...Ross's authority on the editorial page will be reflected in a change of style rather than of policy. He will continue to give support to President Roosevelt and General Johnson. His views are liberal but not as far to the left as those of another crack Post-Dispatch news hawk, Paul Y. Anderson, who uses the Nation to blister his conservative adversaries. His successor as No. 1 Post-Dispatchman at the capital is Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, a onetime Rhodes Scholar who grew up in Sedalia, Ohio. A good hard-digging reporter, "Pete" Brandt was president...
...Midwest, these changes on the Post-Dispatch-which were not mentioned in that paper-were important because its original 987 readers have grown in the last 56 years to 237,000, largest circulation in St. Louis.* Its 1934 property assessment ($1,778,230) makes it the largest single taxpayer in the city, outstripping even St. Louis' famed breweries and shoe factories. As a publishing property its value is conservatively estimated above $10,000,000. Its radio station, KSD, is profitable. Like many another newspaper's, the Post-Dispatch's profits have declined since Depression...
Under Publisher Pulitzer, the executive staff of the Post-Dispatch keeps the paper running smoothly when he is, as he was last week, away for the summer at Bar Harbor. Managing Editor Oliver ("Jack") Bovard, lean, austere, hard to know, has held his job for 22 years. Meek, small, sandy-haired Cartoonist Fitzpatrick works in a cubbyhole off the city room. His drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor...