Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Berlin, the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Joseph Alsop reported...
...buses would stop. The Board capitulated. But the Passenger Workers' Union forthwith prepared to fight for an injunction against the men's dismissal. Unless the injunction was granted, thousands of other independent union members faced firing. Cried the independents: "Dictatorship!" Replied London's Laborite Daily Herald: "The majority cannot risk being perpetually at the mercy of the minority...
...Sunday the Herald modestly followed up with a 440-page issue. Bow-tied Publisher Choate was too smart to clutter it with trite messages of congratulation, carried only one-from Harry Truman. The "Boost New England" theme made the kind of Chamber-of-Commerce play that brought in more than enough ads to pay for the jumbo issue...
...Indifferent Lot. Boston is top-heavy with newspapers. It has eight, and only New York City with nine dailies has more. Among the eight, the Herald stands second lowest in circulation (144,000), owes its prosperity to advertisers' knowledge that it is read by the people with the most money. With the exception of the excellent Boston-published Christian Science Monitor, which is more a national than a local paper, the Herald is probably the best of a lot of indifferent, purely local Boston sheets. Its competition: the reactionary Post, the sometimes timidly liberal morning and evening Globe...
...Offend. The Herald (as many U.S. papers once did) still gets a wire at 11:30 every night, telling what the New York Times is featuring on Page One, and governs itself accordingly. Controlled by lawyers, industrialists, financiers (the law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, the United Shoe Machinery Corp. and Old Colony Trust Co.), the Herald is frankly sensitive to the viewpoint of the "interests," has an editorial page to match. Publisher Choate once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican...