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Scripps-Howard's parent company entered Memphis 30 years ago with the Press. In 1926, the Press swallowed the News-Scimitar. Same year the powerful old morning Commercial Appeal aimed an Evening Appeal at the Press-Scimitar. Just before the Evening Appeal appeared, Editor & Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney suddenly died. Because Mr. Mooney had been a great & able editor, the Appeal papers languished without him. Promoters Luke Lea and Rogers ("We Bank on the South") Caldwell acquired the papers in 1927, milked them of cash, lost them to receivers when the Lea-Caldwell empire collapsed...
...whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard 121,992 new daily readers, 138,124 new Sunday readers, to add to the Press-Scimitar...
...thing of which there was no doubt last week was that the cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists...
...favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills, the compact crinkle-bearded old man scrambled up into Sana, city of 40,000, and squatted in his throne room where the only ornament on the dark blue walls is his own scimitar. Refusing to abdicate, he set about rallying his black, wiry, citizens for the defense of Sana...
They were his last lines. No Moslem scimitar, but the blundering of his incompetent doctors bled the life-blood from him. On Easter Monday, 1824 he murmered "I must sleep now," and was gone. Two years later politicians, adventurers, and secretaries made Greece free. They desire to destroy Metternich's system...