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Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...
...newspapers, having spread the initials on their front pages, dutifully clucked about it on their editorial pages. A few gave it cautious approval. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch applauded: "We can well understand the President's use of the term S.O.B. as applied to a certain showman and think that, considering all the circumstances, it was very well applied." There was no great outcry from churchmen and no noticeable explosion from the public, all of which caused the anti-New Dealing New York Sun's George Sokolsky to complain virtuously: "The reaction to the President's language...
...Forrestal's direction, he shrilled that if the bill passed, "you may be in jail for reasons they will not even tell you. You think you are sitting in your homes tonight but. . . you and your liberties are again standing at Valley Forge." The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch said of the plan: "The sooner it is enacted . . . the more soundly the nation can sleep at night." But wakeful Winchell repeated the cry of "Wall Street," and told his vast radio audience: "Demand that your Congressman send you the cross-examinations of Secretary Forrestal when his Wall Street firm...
...hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press." To Kansas City...
Burly Ben Reese, managing editor of the Post-Dispatch, promptly roared that the paper would put up Link's $11,000 bond "and will defend him to the last ditch." The Post-Dispatch rushed into print with a Sunday editorial (titled "The Green Machine Fights Back") that snarled: "Cowardly men in Illinois are watching the clock as the hour hand moves toward Election Day . . . They think they can muzzle the Post-Dispatch. They are wrong. The Post-Dispatch will not be intimidated. It will not be gagged." Staffers figured that the charge against Link would be quietly dropped after...