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Touch of Realism. In Cincinnati, a hopeful candidate for the police force (who was rejected) came quickly to the point: he was interested primarily, he said, in getting in on the graft from downtown saloons...
...Graft and corruption are rampant; the national economy is sagging; the government of ailing, ineffectual President Elpidio Quirino has lost its grip...
...greatest days in the era of Publisher Evan Howell, famed Editor Henry Woodfin Grady, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, and Frank (Mighty Lak a Rose) Stanton. Under the late Clark Howell Sr., it also fought the Ku Klux Klan and won a Pulitzer Prize (1931) for exposing municipal graft. But the present Clark Howell and his liberal but erratic Editor Ralph McGill have let Cox & Co. take the play away. Example: while the Constitution merely deplored Herman Talmadge, the Journal campaigned aggressively against him, and Reporter George Goodwin won a Pulitzer in 1948 by exposing vote-rigging for Talmadge...
...newspaperman's newspaper." Under Editor Dana, everything was exciting news: "A new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers . . ." When people objected to the Sun's reporting of murder, scandal, gossip and graft, Dana tartly retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the Divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report." City Editor John Bogart's definition became even more famous: "When a man bites a dog, that is news." To gather and write the new "human interest...
There were charges of graft on government contracts. Busta's hodgepodge Labor Party, loosely held together by adulation for "De Chief," was beginning to come apart. By contrast, the rival socialist P.N.P., led by able, Oxford-educated Barrister Norman Washington Manley, seemed in good working order...