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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought and dropped by a hoodlum politician. During the War, Editor Pew worked in the War Department's News Bureau, where he originated the U. S. system of publishing casualty lists in full...
...Editor & Publisher, which he joined in 1924 after resigning from the Hearstian International News Service "on principle," Editor Pew found a resounding forum for his views. Among his antipathies is Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell, who tried to make capital of the Philadelphia jailing and was ringingly denounced by Editor Pew as: "A Broadway scavenger ... a physical coward ... a journalistic gangster...
Another standing dislike is pressagentry. Marlen Pew also shares with his great friend Roy Wilson Howard a dislike of the American Newspaper Guild, often crosses journalistic swords with the Guild's redoubtable President Heywood Broun. Another Pew bugaboo is the stage reporter. Scornfully cried Editor Pew on one occasion: "The corrupt, cheapskate movie-type reporter may exist, but I do not know...
Lucius William Nieman established the Milwaukee Journal in 1882, made it Wisconsin's first 2? daily. Long a crusading editor-publisher, Mr. Nieman received a Pulitzer Prize for trying to stamp out the German language in Milwaukee in 1918. Last October Lucius Nieman died rich at 77, leaving in trust his $5,500,000 Journal holdings. Last February, four days after making a new will bequeathing her residuary estate to Harvard University to "further journalism," his widow, Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, followed him. Last week three distant relatives popped up to contest the widow's will, claim this...
First rebuttal came from the Journal's Promotion Editor Wallace W. ("Brownie") Rowland, who had worked on the paper 40 years, once had charge of the carrier pigeons used to carry spot news copy. Mr. Rowland, who received $25,000 in Mrs. Nieman's will, said he had seen Mrs. Nieman do only a "little drinking," that her extreme household thrift was for the "benefit of the help." Questioned as to why Mrs. Nieman passed over Wisconsin colleges to make a big gift to Harvard, Mr. Rowland averred that Mrs. Nieman simply "did not like Marquette," and that...