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...intra-Allied distrust. New York's Liberal Party, whose 329,235 Term IV votes made possible a 316,591 Roosevelt majority in the State of New York, sent a strong protest to the President on the general course of the nation's diplomatic drifting. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which boomed Term IV summed up: "Surely the time has come for a fresh laying of the cards on the table. Surely the time has come for a new statement of war aims to reassure a world that is now perplexed and bewildered...
...judicious Post-Dispatch, cheering over the fact that St. Louis has never had a major bloody race riot,* called on the citizens: "It is better to bring this ugly thing into the open. It is better to avert a crisis before it happens than to weep about it afterward. St. Louisans, white and Negro, let's act like civilized human beings! Let's put hooligans of both races-the lunatic fringe-in jail to cool off when they begin flexing their muscles in public places! Let's continue our old tradition of decent relations between the races...
...Hotspur." As a crusade-loving Attorney General who usually tired of his crusades in a week or two, Roy McKittrick has been savagely caricatured by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's brilliant Cartoonist Dan Fitzpatrick as a fireman charging off to a dozen infernos at one time. Editorially, the Post-Dispatch habitually referred to him as "Hotspur" -until it decided to support him in this campaign. Roy McKittrick has always referred to himself as "just a country...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, a subeditor for the Manhattan publishing house of Doubleday, Doran, and for five years (after a stint of movie writing in Hollywood) a story scout for 20th Century-Fox films...
...hands full of both. Massive, gregarious Richard W. Slocum became general manager six years ago, has worked steadily against the Bulletin's antiquity, toward a fresh approach in civic matters. Dwight S. Perrin, managing editor since 1939, went to the Bulletin after 13 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His assistant is chain-smoking George S. Seltzer, a walking Philadelphia reference library...