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Paul Y. Anderson has not yet found time for a belated honeymoon. Fired six weeks ago from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TIME, Jan. 31), Paul Anderson this week went to work as a Washington correspondent for his old paper's aggressive rival, the St. Louis Star-Times. In his new job Correspondent Anderson can expect to do more work at less pay than the $16,000 the Post-Dispatch paid him, but in return he will be able to write all the liberal, pro-New Deal pieces he wants, will find his work highly ballyhooed. While...
...country's greatest reporters was out of a job last week, perhaps more to his own surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington...
Abruptly was ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were...
While Congress did precious little (see col. 2). while many another member of his Administration grew jittery about depression, the President exhibited his peculiar capacity for being comforted by crises. At press conference Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked what the President meant to do about recession now that it was growing worse. Said the President, "It is an assumption. Pete, don't tie my hands...
...Enough, Mo., the town post office was discontinued. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch promptly editorialized deploring the loss, hoping post offices in Missouri would not be discontinued at Huzzah, Ink, Useful, Novelty, Peculiar, Wisdom, Ponder, Aid, Braggadocio...