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The conference was summoned by the League of Nations. U. S. representatives were sent by the Associated Press, the United Press, the International News Service, the Scripps-Howard newspapers, etc., etc.
There were seven local newspapers in Pittsburgh not so long ago. Soon mergers cut them to five. Last week William Randolph Hearst and Paul Block took the five down and shuffled them around, and now there are three. As result of a complicated deal, Mr. Block becomes publisher of a...
Joe Williams, expert for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, who had backed Dempsey for a "hoopla" finish with as much sentiment as shrewdness, wrote bitterly: "I am reasonably confident Jack Dempsey fouled Jack Sharkey. ... I wanted to see him ... do it cleanly."
The obvious deliberation with which the gambling Post's report of the President's speech had been prepared, became apparent to alert Denverites who compared the Post's account of the President's speech (TIME, May 2) with accounts printed the same afternoon by the Post's rival, the Scripps...
Fearful of the Scripps-Howard threat to his monopoly* of Rocky Mountain attention, Publisher Bonfils of Denver had taken, with a presidential speech, liberties which predicated not merely immorality but mania.