Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prosecuter Peter Anthony Cancilla, whose record includes a conviction for auto theft. Last week Cancilla was convicted of the attack on Newshawk Blish, fined $50 Scripps-Howard executives announced that the Indianapolis Times would pursue its investigation of local corruption further only if "reason for doing so exists." City Editor Harold La Polt, who had actively abetted the Powell crusade was was relegated to the copy desk. Handsome, dramatic-looking ex-editor Powell, who described the exodus as a "collusive divorce with satisfactory alimony," retired to the country, sail boats...
Last week ambitious Editor Powell's trajectory described a curve he did not plot-a precipitate and sudden return to zero. Back from a vacation in the Caribbean, he found himself fired without notice, his place taken by a onetime Unitarian minister named Ludwig Denny. To the Times staff, Scripps-Howard's Executive Editor John Sorrells explained that Editor Powell had "resigned." To Editor Powell he explained that he was "temperamentally and philosophically unsuited" for the job. Editor Powell agreed...
Real reason for Editor Powell's consignment to the Scripps-Howard doghouse seemed to be that his latest fight, with some local politicians, had become so personal that it canceled his value to his paper. He had lately made some extraordinary allegations of corruption among the Marion County Democracy. Chief target was a criminal court judge named Frank P. Baker, who was once indicted (but never tried) for election fraud...
Judge Baker loudly answered Editor Powell from the bench, accusing him of irregularities in his private life. Further charges of a similar nature began appearing in an anonymous sheetlet called The Dart. When The Dart promised to expose the private life of an important local merchant-one of the largest Times advertisers-Editor Powell's nuisance value to the paper grew by leaps & bounds...
Judges of the photographs and drawings are Langdon Warner '03, assistant curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Frank R. Frapie '98, editor of "American Photography," and of the paintings Frederick B. Robinson '31, of the Fogg Art Museum and Karl Zerbe...