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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition to run from July 25 to September 25, has already been dignified by the news office as "so far as is known, the first attempt made by graduates of any college to have an exhibit which will show the development of the arts of America contemporaneous with the growth of the University itself...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...
Manhattan, as No. 1 financial city of the Western Hemisphere, leads the U. S. business Press in both quantity and quality The New York Times often allots one-fourth of its entire editorial space to business news. The Times' financial editor is Alexander Dana Noyes. His job, however, does not give him his unchallenged position as dean of financial writers. In years, as in wisdom, he stands apart from and above his colleagues. Born the year that Farragut took New Orleans, he learned about the Panic of 1873 first-hand from his merchant father. He was only a year...
Chicago's leading financial editor is dapper, nervous Royal F. (for Freeman) Munger of the Daily News. He writes more for businessmen than for investors and speculators, dishing up an idea per day in a signed feature called "Old Bill Suggests." Once in the 1920's Mr. Munger was put on the carpet for a savage radio attack on real estate bonds, then in high favor with unsophisticated investors. Lately Publisher Frank Knox has been letting out his business section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger...
...contemporary of the News' Munger at the University of Chicago was Robert P. (for Peter) Vanderpoel, lanky, critical financial editor of the Evening American. He was the first Chicago editor to treat the Board of Trade not as a privileged private club but as a public institution susceptible of improvement. With Royal Munger he was viewing the Insull empire with quiet alarm two years before it fell. In his column called "VANDERPOEL" he is usually to be found in any economic corner except the popular one. One of his punching bags currently is the general theory that real Recovery...