Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list included William Randolph Hearst's friend William Griffin, violently anti-British publisher of the New York Enquirer; wild-eyed, red-haired Mrs. Elizabeth (Red Network) Billing, Gerald B. Winrod, publisher of the Defender, notorious preacher of racial and religious intolerance; Prescott Freeze Dennett, organizer of the Islands for War Debts Committee, operator of a one-man isolationist news service (an Army draftee, he was arrested in a St. Louis barracks); Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck, now in prison for failing to disclose in full his connection with the Nazi Government...
...York Enquirer, only Sunday afternoon paper in the city. Making the most of its few unchallenged hours on the newsstands, it prints the wildest stories seen anywhere in the U.S. press. No less strange than the paper is its editor and publisher, a pudgy loudmouth named William Griffin. Last week the U.S. learned a few facts about Editor Griffin and his paper when he was indicted by a Federal grand jury on the charge of undermining the morale of U.S. armed forces...
...friend of William Randolph Hearst, whom he visits at San Simeon and with whom he sometimes exchanges public telegrams on public questions on the front pages of Hearst newspapers. Hearst likes him so well that his papers have started several abortive booms: "Griffin-for-Mayor," "Griffin-for-Senator," and report his comings & goings as if he were somebody. Most of Griffin's trips have been to Eire, where he made himself popular by clamoring for Irish independence. When he launched the Enquirer in 1926 he became one of the most violent Anglophobes and isolationists in the U.S. His paper...
...Griffin is a graduate of Wisconsin-got his first break as a kid reporter when he helped convict a mild-mannered but bigamous itinerant preacher who had killed his extra wife, painstakingly disjointed her body and buried each piece separately. On the crest of this achievement, Griffin sailed for France, got a job on the Paris Times, was at Le Bourget when Lindbergh landed...
...Griffin and these 100-odd resident U.S. correspondents do a very important job for us. They scout for stories whose importance we might otherwise overlook; they telegraph local background and on-the-spot detail whenever an event of national interest breaks in their bailiwicks...