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Last July, while St. Louisans were perspiring through one of their hottest recorded summers, the resourceful Post-Dispatch startled them out of their discomfort by beginning a series of sensational registration fraud exposures. Day by day the newspaper printed pictures of many a vacant lot, unoccupied building, bawdy house, saloon and cheap hotel listed on the Election Board's "revised and corrected" election rolls as domiciles of phantom voters. Soon private citizens, civic organizations, hungry Republicans turned out of office four years ago in the New Deal landslide, set up a loud clamor, began...
...fortnight 32 minor Election Board officials were under indictment for fraud, wilful neglect of duty. Censured but not indicted were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis Election Board for the "betterment of the public service," appointed a new board...
...contest at $1.20 each, racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply...
...when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond Brandt asked whether the President had read an article in the current Saturday Evening Post praising Charles Michelson's astuteness, the President cocked an interested eye at the Democratic pressagent seated nearby...
Gratefully remembering the opportune gift of $2,000 from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America which had tided the Guild over a bad financial time last winter, saturnine Assistant Sunday Editor Julius Klyman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch urged the Guildmen to endorse Lewis' committee for Industrial Organization (TIME, Feb. 10) instead of the American Federation, which he believed to be "a crumbling institution which may not survive another six months...