Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the New York (porno) Graphic called "an episode of spectacular interest and importance" closed last week. Emile H. Gauvreau, the Graphic's Managing Editor, resigned...
...Graphic explained: "Mr. Gauvreau retires to assure himself of uninterrupted opportunity for an extended rest...
...Gauvreau explained: "It probably won't be long before I'll become editor of another New York newspaper. I hope so, anyway. I have no intention of retiring at the age of 37. I resigned from the Graphic because I disagreed heartily with Mr. Macfadden on vital and essential matters of policies, not only of his newspaper but of his other publications as well. I would never work for Mr. Macfadden again under any circumstances...
Further discourse on what he meant by "vital and essential matters of policies" Mr. Gauvreau would not give. Other newsmen guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
...majority of publications affected are merely recreative, some frankly porno graphic in character," the now white-whiskered little President wrote. Then, possibly thinking of the U. S. masspress, he added...