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While he was trying to find out why, Reporter Simms got an anonymous telephone tip: "They [stole] 600 votes for Porter on one of the county totals." Simms found that in Jefferson County Porter's total had indeed been changed from the announced 23,060 to 23,660. On the official tally sheets, he found that "ones had been changed to sevens, zeros to sixes and sevens to nines." Simms promptly wrote a story charging vote fraud, and put it on the wire...
...There (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). The election of Thomas Jefferson...
...newspaper companies that publicly report their profits, the Boston Herald-Traveler Corp. has seen its profits fall off from $1,270,813 in 1946 to $526,283 last year. In cities where there are monopolies, the papers are doing better. Greensboro, N.C.'s Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., which helps finance 23 papers all over the U.S., reports that the profit margin of its papers in competitive cities has slipped to less than 5%, while in monopoly cities it is nearly...
Bowers was U.S. Ambassador to Spain from 1933 to '39. Besides having had a ringside seat for the war, Bowers was an able journalist (he was an editorial writer for the old New York World) and is a historian of some fame (The Tragic Era, The Young Jefferson). Unfortunately, in this book he has thrown off the historian's mantle and kept on only the form-fitting B.V.D.s of the sentimental liberal...
tution." Six weeks later, each received a letter, signed by Jefferson's attorney, which said: "I can assure you that the decision... to terminate your service... was not based upon a finding that you were a subversive person as that term is defined in the Pennsylvania Loyalty...