Word: howard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ANGUS WARD ALIVE - OR ELSE! W35 the head on La Moore's opening editorial, boxed across the top of the New York World-Telegram's editorial page, and echoed by the other 18 Scripps-Howard newspapers (total circ...
...Soon Howard's men had six articles ready to go. When the State Department sent what Howard thought was a "mealymouthed" protest to Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Howard let fly with his first salvo...
...Perdicaris (who had been kidnaped by a Moroccan bandit named Raisuli), La Moore quoted T.R.'s famed ultimatum to the Bey of Tangier: "Perdicaris alive-or Raisuli dead."*Lashing out at the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs for its "notorious . . . pro-Communist sympathies," Scripps-Howard in another blast cried: "Writing polite little notes has produced no results. Action is needed. A U.S. naval blockade of [Chinese] ports would bring the Communists to terms...
...Page One, Howard's New York World-Telegram demanded: "Mr. President, what are you going to do? Get him out or let him rot?" At President Truman's press conference, Merriman Smith, of the Scripps-Howard-controlled United Press, put the question: What about the imprisonment of Angus Ward? Said the President: an outrage. Then the State Department sent an appeal to 30 nations in Ward's behalf. A few days later Ward was free (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In a final cartoon, Scripps-Howard assigned the credit to public opinion, the force it had done much...
...Snapped by Photographer Tom Howard, with a camera strapped to his shin. To get the picture, he sat in the front row, pulled up his pants-leg and snapped the shutter while the attention of officers was fixed on the execution...