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...most adroit politicians of the shirt-sleeved South, Governor Sterling has worked long and hard to reach his present eminence. In his home city of Houston he made a reputation as a port developer, a Y. M. C. A. benefactor and the able publisher of the Post-Dispatch. In 1927 Governor Dan Moody named him chairman of the State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated...
...materially contributed ideas and information are supposed to include (though each diplomatically denies it) Farmer Murphy and Drew Pearson of the Baltimore Sun, Robert S. Allen of the Christian Science Monitor, George Abell of the Washington Daily News, Charles Ross and Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ray Tucker of the New York World-Telegram and Ruby Black, freelance...
...York Times might consider it fit to print front-page for nearly two weeks. Cyrus H. K. Curtis' polite New York Evening Post might feature on its front page a three-column drawing of the girl's family and dog in their home. The Chicago Tribune might feel called upon to print an 8-column banner: SCAN SLAIN GIRL'S LOVE DIARY. The Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Examiner, Milwaukee Sentinel, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Indianapolis News might go for the story, as go for it they did. So did the newspapers of Boston...
Rogers caught sight of a man standing alone in an abandoned filling station, blindfolded. He went to him?Dr. Kelley?and was told: "The men who let me out here said John Rogers of the Post-Dispatch will take you home. Do what he tells...
Various fantastic aspects of the case remained uncleared last week. The family stoutly denied a persistent report that $100,000 ransom had been paid. Xo other motive for the kidnapping was offered; no explanation of why the Post-Dispatch and Reporter Rogers were selected to reap the glory (Rogers was given a bonus of one year's salary?said to exceed $6,000?for his scoop). Opposition papers boldly hinted that the Post-Dispatch was withholding