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When Scripps-Howard established the five-column Washington News ten years ago the publishers had no squeamishness about having the sheet called a "tabloid." Only because of the Manhattan Daily News and Boston Record did the U. S. reading public know that such things as condensed newspapers existed. But in...
After Governor Roosevelt made his rabble-rousing "forgotten man" speech, Mr. Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied...
Smith Week. Before starting for a convention that promised to be as indecorous and undignified as any he had ever attended, Al Smith spent a quiet week in New York. While fishing off Long Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn...
The Liberal Press was shunted well off to one corner. There Robert Morse Lovett of the New Republic pursed his lips in amused disapproval, nursed a fat brief case between his knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front...