Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911. But Joseph Pulitzer could see through skulduggery, no matter how dark its hue, could sight a dirty deal a mile away. He made the Post-Dispatch one of the most valiant crusaders of an era rich in righteous journalism...
Like his father, young Joseph Pulitzer has weak eyes. At 55 he can barely read his Post-Dispatch headlines by holding them an inch away, has secretaries who read to him, is resigned to the prospect of complete blindness before his life ends. Young Joseph resembles his father in more ways than one, and particularly wants to resemble Old Joseph as a crusading publisher. For his chief editorial writer he has ruddy, Irish Ralph Coghlan, who would like to be known as a hard-hitting successor to Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O.K.") Bovard, who retired two years...
...liberal, progressive paper, the Post-Dispatch approved most New Deal reforms, found few national causes for crusades until last spring. Then Editor Coghlan began to suspect that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get the U. S. into war. The Post-Dispatch leaped on the barricades, waved an isolationist banner, launched a crusade...
...Brink." After the President's warlike speech at the University of Virginia last June, promising all possible aid to crumbling France and beleaguered Britain, the Post-Dispatch cried in an editorial titled How We Are Being Led to the Brink: "President Roosevelt cannot be trusted to keep this country neutral...
...little mayor, in a baggy dark suit and clutching a worn brown drummer's dispatch case, was a picture of determination as the Council members strode off to lunch. Afterward Prime Minister King led them to Parliament House. On the way up the front steps Mr. King stumbled and Fiorello LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their...