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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cuban visitors were short-term tourists. Miami has a permanent Cuban colony of 5,000. Havana interests have also invested heavily in real estate and hotels. Cuban syndicates have bought into the big Everglades and Shoremede Hotels; the Royalton and America (also Cuban-owned) print their menus in Spanish. Reported Havana Newsman Miguel de Marcos: "Cuba has conquered Miami without firing a shot...
...eight years, the British press has had barely enough paper to keep alive, and not nearly enough to tell all the news. For nine postwar months, the Labor government let newspapers print all the copies they could sell. But in the summer of 1947, to cut down imports, the government again froze circulations and cut most standard-size papers back to four measly pages...
Misreporting hit a new low on the West Coast. Los Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based...
...Crossley poll (which predicted a Dewey victory of 49.9%) had discovered an upsurge for Truman in the campaign's closing days, but underestimated it. In a statewide poll just before election, the Chicago Sun-Times found a shift to Truman (but did not trust it enough to print it) which indicated a 50.05% victory in Illinois (the actual vote was 50.68%). Said Editor Richard Finnegan: "This has taught us a poll is no good unless it follows the voter right up to the booth...
...flyweight four-page dailies. But some of them-and some readers of other bulky U.S. papers-would certainly like the Times's air edition for U.N. delegates at Paris. It managed (by sharp editing and leaving out ads) to get all the news that's fit to print into 12 to 16 pages...