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Neither Hearst nor Macfadden was responsible for Look, but two young men of Iowa. Aided & abetted by his brother John, 33-year-old Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr. of the Des Moines Register and Tribune and Minneapolis Star had long been a publisher who knew how to put pictures together so...
In Des Moines, in 1935, a scout for the Cleveland Indians discovered a sandlot pitcher named Robert Feller, who, although he was not yet 17, seemed promising enough to hire. Following the customary procedure, Feller was given a contract with the Fargo-Moorhead Club of the Northern League. Before he...
Notable fence-sitters are the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune. Last week the Independent Democratic Cleveland Plain Dealer slid off its fence with a brief editorial declaring: "We prefer Mr. Roosevelt because his philosophy of government is attuned to what we regard as inevitable social and...
As in 1932, the GOP's ablest pen in 1936 has been that of Des Moines Register's, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling. This year "Ding," who carried away from Washington a first-rate grudge when he quit the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey because the New Deal...
Church vote: Among Church members 51.3 out of every 100 votes are for Roosevelt as against 48.7 for Landon. Dutch Reformed, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans and Methodists all favored Landon over Roosevelt. Only three major sects favored Roosevelt: Jews, 82 for Roosevelt to 18 for Landon; Roman Catholics, 78 for...