Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the New York Daily News ghoulishly sneaked a picture of Murderess Ruth Snyder*dying in Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One "exclusive photograph" of the electrocution of "Mad Dog Killer" James Morelli, 22, who had killed four men in what crime-loving Hearst newspapers called "the worst Chicago mass killing since the St. Valentine's Day massacre...
...sneaked a tiny camera in his shoe past the machine.) Fordney charged that the man had been painted in the chair and pointed out "discrepancies" between the actual execution and the picture. Where there had been a dark electrode on Morelli's right leg, the heavily retouched Herald-American picture showed none. The cable, and other chair fixtures, said Fordney, were out of proportion to their actual size. To illustrate his points, Fordney dressed an aide in death-house garb, seated him in the chair and had his picture taken. Nevertheless, the Herald-American's Executive Editor George...
...bottling plant in Kennewick, Wash. (pop. 6,800) two wartime Navy buddies, ex-Lieutenants Robert Philip and Glenn Lee, started the Tri-City Herald, first daily newspaper in Washington's close-linked triangle of Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. In the next two years, their hard-hitting editorial campaigns on local issues earned them a reputation as fearless crusaders, pushed their circulation up from 2,000 to 10,258 and put them in the black. Fortnight ago, they got into their toughest scrap...
...check up on a group of $7,500 houses in Pasco that the Columbia Construction Co. had sold to veterans. A group of tenants led by disabled Lloyd Kestin, a Pasco schoolteacher, had refused to sign their mortgages, claiming they had found building defects. While the Tri-City Herald investigated, the builder sued Kestin to compel him to sign. Next day, the Herald broke a series of stories supporting the veterans' charges...
...construction company went back to court. It complained to Superior Court Judge Bartholomew B. Horrigan, 69, who runs a wheat ranch .on the side, that the Herald's series would make it impossible to get a fair trial of the Kestin suit. Headlong, Judge Horrigan promptly forbade the Herald to publish any more stories on the houses, forced it to yank the fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such...