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...Situation. When Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis strode into journalism, in 1913, bought the staid, sanctimonious Philadelphia Public Ledger, the eyes that swiveled in his direction widened and awaited a new stroke of genius from the employer of Editors Bok* (Ladies' Home Journal) and Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post...
Lofty tone the Ledger already had, but did not cling to. Sound information the Curtis coffers tried to purchase by establishing a wide foreign service and high-priced U.S. correspondents. Independent politics were a little difficult to maintain, because Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis lunched at the Union League Club and had a reputation for highly respectable conservatism...
Last week, an enterprising "star reporter" of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' newspapers began a series of feature articles on the failure of St. Paul. But, despite the considerable advance publicity concerning wonders to be revealed, his articles have so far revealed little or nothing not known already, and arrived at no definite conclusions. One article created the impression that the road could have been saved by Government intervention. This was subsequently denied by high officials in Washington. To summarize the fundamental causes for the St. Paul collapse would require much analysis of a statistical and eco nomic character-heavy...
...about this time that Colonel Mitchell read in the Review of Reviews a character-sketch of himself by Clinton W. Gilbert, famed correspondent of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' newspapers, in which Mr. Gilbert painted 1) the "unseemly spectacle" of an Army general telling, in moments opportune and inopportune, "how he could sink the entire U. S. Navy with one hand" and 2) the "unseemly spectacle" of "conservatism and stupidity charged with the keeping of the walls of safety about our land...
...York Evening Post, ancient landmark of the U. S. publishing panorama, approached the end of its first year under the mastery of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. It had been a year such as the Post never knew before?a year of the grand manner...