Word: ruppel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown-haired Louis Ruppel went to the tabloid Chicago Daily Times as managing editor in January 1935, after four years on the New York Daily News, and a brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...
...Ruppel himself set the pace in the page-one headlines, which he always wrote. A Ruppel classic: "GOODNIGHT MY DARLING" (in white across a full-page cut of William Powell leaving Jean Harlow's funeral...
...Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with a series of wisecracking banner headlines for his "Fire Editions." The headlines...
...investigators said that each Bund post has its select uniformed force "drilled in the goose step and . . . ready for any emergency," and that the policies of the Bund weeklies duplicate those of the Hitler-controlled press. No direct evidence connected the Bund with the German Government but Editor Ruppel got a rise out of old Senator William E. Borah, who bumbled about a Congressional investigation...
Whether or not Editor Ruppel's most ambitious stunt to date was up to the standard Times readers have come to expect, the Times's Nazi expose sent its city & suburban circulation rocketing above its evening rivals, the News and Hearst American, for the first time...