Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILLIAM R. SHIELDS...
With no knowledge of campaigning and little understanding of issues, gentle, bewildered Mrs. Coffey had been thrust into the race by the district's ambitious Democratic boss, flashy, dark-eyed John R. Torquato. Torquato's organization had upset the dominant Republicans hst November by sending War Hero Bob Coffey to Congress. They did it with the help of the 55,000 union members in the district, nearly half of them mineworkers. They were out to repeat...
Gray has insisted on widening discussion beyond his own views. Once a headline in one of the Gray papers called cigarettes "coffin tacks." That angered Publisher Gray's Uncle James, who is chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray...
Instead, Editor R. T. Peyton-Griffin ran a story about a minor squabble between an Englishwoman and a Japanese consul 28 years ago, articles on Philosopher Lao-tse and Hittite hieroglyphics. But though the paper was being starved to death, it could not just lie down and die. In a Page-One box, Peyton-Griffin plaintively announced: "This journal is petitioning the appropriate authorities for permission to cease publication...
After Cutting's death in a 1935 plane crash, the New Mexican changed hands and politics several times, is now owned by Robert M. MtKinney, cousin of Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and Southwest Newspapers, Inc. which own three other small papers. But it is run by 42-year-old Editor Harrison, a hardfisted, soft-hearted political reporter who has been a hair shirt for New Mexican politicos for 17 years, political columnist of the New Mexican for five and editor for 17 months...