Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney is only the latest in a long line of moderate-to-liberal politicians who have been branded by the Union Leader as unfit for office. The man who does the branding and writes the editorials is William Loeb, 62, perhaps the nation's most intemperate and opinionated publisher...
While most U.S. papers have moved closer to the political center, Loeb has stayed resolutely on the far right. Warring against the twin evils of taxation and timidity in foreign affairs, he has substituted his own eagle-chicken classification for the customary hawk-dove. By his definition, even Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara qualify for the "chicken" category. "The harbor of Haiphong," he says repeatedly, "should be bombed...
...Habit of Losing. By the standards of metropolitan journalism, Loeb's Union Leader (circ. 55,000) is not very big. Nevertheless, it is New Hampshire's largest and only statewide daily. As such, it is read and feared by every politician courting the New Hampshire vote. The candidates supported by Loeb -the late Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Brigadier General Harrison Thyng-have a habit of losing. Richard Nixon doubtless has mixed feelings about Loeb's support in the current presidential primary. But better to be liked than hated by Loeb. In the 1964 primary, he referred...
...White House Secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, Loeb lives a long way from his newspaper office, in a neo-Tudor mansion on a 90-acre estate in Prides Crossing, Mass. He is well liked by his employes, was one of the first U.S. publishers to establish a profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the Union Leader does a commendable job of reporting state politics and carries as much national and international news as most papers its size. But all too often news stories turn out to be only slightly disguised Loeb opinions. ASKS U.S. BELLY CRAWL bawled the banner headline over...
...Spring of 1961 Miss Hellman was a visiting lecturer in English and gave three lectures consisting of anecdotes and reminiscences at the Loeb...