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What did the dragon look like? In the Communist Daily Worker, where the words were first flung, and in such papers as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...
Raymond ("Pete") Brandt, 55, a onetime Rhodes scholar who has covered Washington for 27 years, bosses the five-man St. Louis Post-Dispatch bureau. Pete Brandt leaves most spot news coverage to the wire services, saves his staff for interpretive stories and special assignments, thinks nothing of taking six columns to analyze a U.S. Supreme Court decision himself. His goal: "three-dimensional reporting," i.e., see, hear and understand...
...Daily Worker shouted of "Fascist violence and terror," and nonparty voices, among them the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, muttered darkly about endangered freedoms, berated the U.S. Supreme Court for its opinion (TIME, June 11) affirming the conviction of the top Communist leaders. The Providence Evening Bulletin said there is a real but narrow line between outlawing "conspiracy to teach and advocate" and "teaching and advocacy of radical ideas themselves," hoped the U.S. would stay on the "safe side of that line" and limit its anti-Red campaign to "genuine conspirators." That seemed to be what...
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...Star's position had not been precarious. It had made money since 1932, despite rising costs, had carved out its own niche in St. Louis. Its small but spring-legged editorial staff took an underdog's delight in occasionally beating the P-D on stories. Like the Post-Dispatch, it generally followed a Fair Deal line, and like the Post-Dispatch, it had its unpredictable lapses, e.g., both supported Dewey...