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In 1925 he turned down a Scripps-Howard offer of $25,000 a year, and in the mid-'30s turned down a Hearst offer of $700 a week. Publisher Elzey Roberts would not match such salaries, but he gave Taylor Star-Times stock, which he has lately bought back...
>Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who has been a stalking horse for the Administration before, was the most vociferous. He called for convoying "without another day's delay or dallying." Shouting down all attempts of other Senators to interrupt him, he cried: "Do we want to let millions...
Awarded. The 1941 Pulitzer Prizes in letters and journalism, to: Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, for his wartime Broadway success There Shall Be No Night; Marcus Lee Hansen (posthumously), late professor of American history at the University of Illinois, for his historical study The Atlantic Migration; New York Daily News Editorial...
Columnist Ray Clapper, of Scripps-Howard, thought the Administration's attitude was sound, the Treasury tax proposals "severe." Said he: "Thank God for that. If this Government hasn't the guts to stand for heavy taxation in this crisis it hasn't the guts to do anything...
Daniel Fitzpatrick, 50, worked up into cartooning the hard way. Born in the industrial city of Superior, Wis., he was kicked out of high school at 16 because he spent his time drawing instead of studying algebra and history. In Chicago he found he could make money turning out comic...