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...paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...Post-Dispatch, a discerning and fair-minded news veteran who has long had the respect of Washington's critical, competitive correspondent corps. In the decades since he was graduated from the Independence (Mo.) high school with Harry Truman, Charley Ross has served 16 years as chief of the P-D's Washington bureau, handled almost every kind of story, and specialized brilliantly in political reporting...
...both elated and worried by the abrupt offer of his boyhood chum. If he accepted, he would have his finger on an exciting piece of history. Still, the job was a well-known heartbreaker, and it paid only $10,000 a year (Ross gets $35,000 from the P-D). Besides, Publisher Pulitzer was dead against his leaving...
...Harry Truman's mind was made up. He called in Ross, convinced him, then called Pulitzer long-distance and convinced him. Truman agreed to let his new press secretary cover the San Francisco Conference for the P-D before coming to the White House. Together, they agreed to keep the appointment secret until Ross's return...
...anti-Landon cartoons, came out against Roosevelt (it supported F.D.R. again, however, in '40 and '44). Fitz, refusing to draw pro-Landon cartoons, more or less expected to be fived. But Pulitzer only remarked to him: "Sorry you couldn't go along with us." Fitz, a P-D man for 31 years, summed up last week: "Hell, I wouldn't last a week with Hearst. This paper is run as near like a democracy should be run as anything I know...