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Within twelve hours after the Supreme Court voided NRA last fortnight the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and Los Angeles Times removed the Blue Eagle from their mastheads. Within 24 hours the Boston Transcript, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit Free Press, many another anti-New Deal newspaper did likewise. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner hoisted red-white-&-blue flags in the Eagle's place. The New York Times and Scripps-Howard dailies everywhere left their Eagles flying. The lusty, liberal tabloid New York Daily News, first in the city to hoist the Eagle, ostentatiously hauled it down...
...coming from a State where every paper of note attacks him violently, he is grateful for small favors. He looks kindly on the New York Times because he thinks it alone gives him a fair break. His best newshawk friend is Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Recently a story went the Washington rounds to the effect that Senator Long did the unheard-of thing of calling informally on Correspondent Anderson at his home one evening, accompanied by two bodyguards carrying "violin cases." "Just dropped in for a chat," said the Senator. "Don't mind...
Titans of the Press in the last century were Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), and Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the lamented New York World. Both men left great wealth with which schools of journalism were established in their names: the Medill School at Northwestern University in Chicago; the Pulitzer School at Columbia in Manhattan. The Pulitzer School made news last fortnight by announcing that its course will be shortened next autumn from two years to one, that only graduate students will be admitted...
Besides their journalism schools, the two old Joes left behind two able young Joes. In St. Louis, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. runs the Post-Dispatch. In Manhattan, Grandson Joseph Medill Patterson has made a phenomenal success of the tabloid Daily News. Like many another practical newsman of this generation, "Joe" Patterson has little faith in schools of journalism. Last week, after reading the Pulitzer School's announcement, he filled the whole editorial column of his News with a piece entitled "On How Not to Teach Journalism." With it he printed a picture of Columbia's aging President Nicholas Murray...
Your splendid story about the Post-Dispatch in your Aug. 13 issue will be gratefully received by many St. Louisans who will be proud to see that paper get a measure of the national recognition to which it is entitled...