Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This much, however, is clear today. The once-placid SPD will be torn by internecine warfare for some time; Berlin's economic problems will not be solved soon. But there is some chance that Germany's most fundamental political questions will be treated with far more dispatch and directness than the foundering Grand Coalition in Bonn can now provide. For the debate within Berlin could produce skilled and forthright Parliamentary leaders hardened by the travails of intra-party maneuvering. More important, it is certain that this development will stimulate the Federal Republic's now-sterile political debate. All Germany will...
...elected to the state house of representatives-although his political career was damaged when in a burst of rage he shot a local politician in the leg. Pulitzer paid his $100 fine and went back to journalism. At 31, he bought the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch, merged it three days later with the smaller Post. He shocked St. Louis by lambasting its leading families for undervaluing property in order to avoid taxes. He accused gas and insurance companies of fraudulent practices. "The crusade," writes Swanberg, "was simply the Pulitzer personality expressed in print...
That personality got the Post-Dispatch in trouble. An outraged citizen who felt that he had been insulted by a P-D crusade stormed into the newspaper office, threatened Editor John Cockerill and was shot dead for his trouble...
Within Pulitzer, writes Swanberg, were "two warring individuals-Pulitzer the reformer and Pulitzer the salesman." On the one hand, Pulitzer's two principal newspapers-the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World-showed a zeal for news gathering and a passion for reform that changed the shape of U.S. journalism. On the other hand, Pulitzer built up circulation by pandering to the lowest public tastes...
...Newhouse added it to his chain in 1955, rejuvenated the paper's editorials, concentrated on local coverage, civic progress and a personal membership in virtually every organization in town, all of which lifted circulation (now 315,000 daily) to within hailing distance of the international-minded Post-Dispatch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...