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...career of Editor Johns on the P-D extended from the days of John A. Cockerill, who as managing editor had to shoot an indignant reader in self-defense, to the brawling '20s when the P-D thundered against Prohibition, whooped it up for the League of Nations, and denounced iniquitous Republicans. In charge of the P-D editorial page for 30 years, Johns never deviated from the P-D platform outlined in 1907 by Joseph Pulitzer, which called for Jeffersonian democracy, individual liberty and journalistic independence...
Editor Johns joined the P-D five years after Pulitzer bought it. The year he started saw the purchase of the New York World. It wasn't long before Johns was Pulitzer's liaison man between New York and the PD. His powers were enormous. Typical of Pulitzer was his method of introducing Johns to Manhattan confreres. "Gentlemen," he would say, "this is the editor of my Western paper. I pay scarce ly any attention to that paper; I am too busy in New York. The main thing that interests me about it is the check I receive...
...Louis, where the $257,000,000 Union Electric Co., one of its crack subsidiaries, earns for North American about $6,000,000 a year. Across the street from Union Electric on Twelfth Boulevard stands the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the great Pulitzer newspaper whose mission is policing the community. P-D's public-utility reporter, a thin-haired A. E. F. sergeant named Sam Shelton, had long been convinced that Union Electric was buying politicians. Two years ago he got a break when Union Electric's moose-tall aristocratic president Louis H. Egan eased out a vice president...
...began a secret investigation, and Sam Shelton began a series of exclusive stories that kept P-D readers in a state of mixed rage and amusement. From testimony in trials that resulted it appeared that: In eight years Union Electric's Lobbyist Albert Laun and his friends had developed a slush fund of at least $525,000 which never appeared on Union Electric's books. One company lawyer had kicked back $111,000 in excess fees; another $42,000; a Kansas City equipment salesman had kicked back $70,000; insurance companies had refunded $80,000. This money then...
...Never a P-D legman, ireful Editor Coghlan often wanders down from the eighth to the third (city room) floor to wrangle happily with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...