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Since the first of January, the Journal has carried not less than a half-page a day crammed with news characteristically bold-stroked, free-swinging and Hearstian. As a result of its findings, the sober element of Atlantic citizenry have banded together, led by the Chamber of Commerce, to run Mayor Anthony M. Ruffu Jr. and his henchmen out of town...
...four Senators quickly cleansed their names of the Hearstian smear, in downright statements. Senator Heflin was most agitated. He roared about "scalawags, crooks and scoundrels." In the course of his protestimony he was obliged to tell about receiving money from the Ku Klux Klan for his anti-Roman Catholic orations...
...series of daily exposures of the innards of international machinations, it has been disclosed that the recent anti-American drive in Nicaragua had its inception under Mexican auspices. This received as little attention in extra-Hearstian circles as did the revelation that the Calles government was adopting Soviet methods in such details as the president's addressing his aides as "comrade". But the last accusation, that Calles paid a Maine lawyer $10,000 to investigate British mine conditions during a strike in order to insure the judicious expenditure of $100,000 which he planned to give in the name...
...largest issue of any standard-size U. S. newspaper is the Sunday issue of the Hearstian New York American, which claims 1,120,022 Sunday readers
...Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities of arraying ten million fighting men against ... the West." To serious diplomatic watchers of the sky, the annoying thing about Hearstian scoops is that now and again they are "straight." Strangely enough the Philadelphia Public Ledger Foreign Service turned up an equally unique "scoop" to the effect that M. Tchitcherin would speed to Paris and there lay before Foreign Minister Briand a scheme for a Pan-Asiatic League...