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Almost as vigorous a sentinel over Press rights as Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher is Dean Carl William Ackerman of Columbia University's School of Journalism. Last week Dean Ackerman made his annual report to President Nicholas Murray Butler, told him that the Press had averted a U. S. dictatorship under NRA; that General Johnson, unable to control newspaper editorials, had used Radio and Cinema, more complaisant organs, toward that...
...tall, cadaverous, unsociable Moe Annenberg is that he came from Germany and started in as a circulation hustler for Hearst's Chicago papers. From Chicago he moved to Milwaukee and started a newspaper distributing agency which he still owns. Arthur Brisbane went to Milwaukee, bought the Milwaukee Sentinel (later taken over by Hearst who in 1929 sold it to Paul Block) and made Moe editor & publisher. Afterwards Hearst took Moe to New York. There in 1921 Moe got into partnership with a pair of gentlemen named Joe Bannon and Hugh Murray. Aware of the huge public that follows horse...
...kept things going since her death. There are one-man Committees on Publications in every state (two in California), and close to the Mother Church in Boston the Christian Science Publishing Society unceasingly grinds out printed matter. World-famed is the Christian Science Monitor, circulation 129,260. The Sentinel runs to 170,784 copies weekly; monthly Heralds are published in French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian and Braille. Last week when 5,000 members from many lands met in Boston for the annual meeting of the Mother Church, of most interest to them was the new, nearly completed Christian Science publishing house...
...charges of raping two white girls (TIME, June 22, 1931; Nov. 14, 1932); a change of venue to Decatur. Ala. and a defense motion to quash the indictments on the ground that no Negro had been a member of the indicting grand jury. Editorialized Scottsboro's Jackson County Sentinel last year: "A Negro on a jury in Jackson County would be a curiosity, and curiosities are sometimes embalmed...
Into town moved Publisher Martin Andersen of the Orlando (Fla.) Reporter-Star and Sentinel, a 16-page stereotype press, five linotype machines, an INS wire. The presses and linotypes were left over when Publisher Andersen's two Orlando plants recently combined. With this equipment Publisher Andersen began putting out the Times (evening). His backer is Charles Edward Marsh of Marsh & Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where...