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After hearing President Johnson's State of the Union address, the Louisville Courier-Journal had a noble vision. ANOTHER MOSES STARTS TOWARD A PROMISED LAND, went the headline above the Courier's editorial assessment of the President's message: "One is constrained to believe that the land...
Echoed Arguments. Though the Citizen's owners said their offer was in spired by local loyalty, the Justice Department thought differently. Last week trustbusters descended on Tucson, charged that the Citizen-Star deal was illegal on the ground that it violated both the Clayton and Sherman antitrust acts. Justice...
Scripps's later recollection of the facedown with Howard does not conflict: "His manner was forceful, and the reverse from modest. Gall was written all over his face. It was in every tone and every word he voiced. There was ambition, self-respect and forcefulness oozing out of every...
The Important Date. In due time, Howard was elevated to full command of the Scripps organization, displacing in 1922 Scripps's first partner, Milton McRae, in the name of the chain. After Scripps died in 1926, the chain changed too. The pro-Democrat, pro-labor views of Edward Wyllis...
Thanks in large part to Howard, Scripps-Howard is in excellent shape to survive his departure. Sound business management and the delegation of considerable authority to editors have maintained the 86-year-old organization as the most enduring and successful group of newspapers in the U.S. The U.P., having absorbed...