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...Louisville Courier-Journal, too general; to Herbert Hoover, a strong speech for a strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came out for Willkie for President. Columnist Ray Clapper asserted that people were filled with pain and disappointment at the bad delivery, judged Willkie "by the Roosevelt standard of radio crooning," but changed their minds if they read the speech. "Not many major political utterances...
...wars and quarrels. The Zeitung saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, the splendor and decline of the Hohenzollerns. It published the official texts of all Austrian treaties, declarations, laws and constitutions. Franz Josef died in 1916; two years later the Imperial eagle on the Zeitung's, masthead was replaced by the single-headed eagle of the Republic...
...weeks later the new Waukegan Post appeared on the street. Only name on the masthead was Frank T. Fowler, listed as director. A onetime Chicago alderman, onetime manager of Waukegan's chamber of commerce, publisher of another short-lived Waukegan journal, 72-year-old Frank Fowler had been living in Tarpon Springs, Fla. until he came back to take charge of the Post...
...before Broun fell ill, his one-time friend and neighbor, Red-fearing Westbrook Pegler, wrote in his own syndicated column of the Guild: "I have long sensed a strong pull toward Communism in its official list. The masthead, so to speak, includes two officers out of five who are, to my satisfaction, either Communists or determined fellow travelers." And of Heywood Broun: "I can quote from his own writing an affirmation which goes far beyond a mere expression of sympathy for the show-window aims of the Moscow government." That such beliefs were harbored by many a Right-thinking dissenter...
...request, the Communist weekly New Masses dropped from its masthead the name of salty "Robert Forsythe" (real name: Kyle Crichton of Collier's). George Wishnak, onetime business manager of the acrobatic Daily Worker, explained his withdrawal from the Party: "Anyone . . . who continues to affiliate himself with or to express sympathy for the elements that support this alliance of Soviet Russia with Nazi Germany, if he is to be consistent, must pray for a Hitler victory. This I refuse...