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First to make headlines in his own news papers was Frank Gannett, who opened a National Food Conference which he said he had called at the request of Agriculture Department heads of 16 states. The program was perhaps the most concentrated collection of New Deal denouncers possible to imagine, including Adman Lou Maxon, late of OPA, bang-browed Author Louis Bromfield, Texas' W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith...
...sooner had Frank Gannett's conference blown over than Bertie McCormick started up. The occasion: a "Constitution Day" dinner at Chicago's Palmer House. The guests: some 1,000 McCormick-variety Republicans. The principal speaker: the Colonel. His topic: the excellence of Illinois (which he sometimes attributes to himself) and of Midwest institutions, under which he lumped the Constitution, Lincoln and Illinois's Governor and 100% McCormick stooge, Dwight H. Green...
Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who has fought many a long and bitter campaign (against the Supreme Court packing plan, the $25,000 salary limit etc.), began another last month. He warned U.S. booksellers of probable libel suits if they handled a new book: pseudonymous Author John Roy Carlson's Under Cover, a history of Bundists, Kluxers and assorted nightshirters (see p. 97}. The book declares that the Committee for Constitutional Government, founded by Frank Gannett, had tie-ups with the fellow travelers of Fascism. The Chicago Tribune also began to attack the book...
What Is News? The publisher and his new employe have one thing in common: they think the New Deal is a mess. Gannett says he wants this mess intimately interpreted. That is fine with Dickson, who has covered Washington news for 16 years, has little sympathy with the way press associations handle it. Says Dickson...
...goes well, Dickson will have three years to accomplish his aim. He has a contract (at better than $10,000 annual salary), three reporters to start with. He will also write a column three or four times a week. (Gannett editors have already rejected its proposed title: Horizons Unlimited. Too literary...