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...Told last week in the National Press Club's monthly sheetlet was a story about some reporters who tried to outsmart the President at a recent Press Club dinner. On the back of a menu they wrote: "I hereby nominate Herbert Bratter [a Washington writer] as Ambassador to the North Pole." Folding the menu so that these words were hidden, they passed it to the President to autograph. When the menu was returned, they discovered that the President had unfolded it, struck out "North," inserted "South," added: "(North Pole already occupied...
...show to keep the money coming in. Frank Peterson, onetime Townsend publicity director charged that the Clementses' high living was entirely paid for by the pennies & nickels of deluded oldsters. He said Founders Townsend and Clements were netting $2,000 per week from the Townsend Weekly, 5? sheetlet which now reports 220,000 circulation. Swiftly revolt broke out in Colorado, Oregon, Minnesota and California Townsend Clubs, with ugly charges of dictatorship and mishandling of funds...
Judge Baker loudly answered Editor Powell from the bench, accusing him of irregularities in his private life. Further charges of a similar nature began appearing in an anonymous sheetlet called The Dart. When The Dart promised to expose the private life of an important local merchant-one of the largest Times advertisers-Editor Powell's nuisance value to the paper grew by leaps & bounds...
...entire list of publications owned by Odhams has grown too numerous to warrant discussion in Chairman Elias' annual speech, but the shareholders knew better than to worry. Every decrepit sheetlet that Elias has picked up, he has turned into a moneymaker. The Herald, when Elias found it, was on its last legs as a Laborite party organ because the millionaire publishers Beaverbrook & Rothermere knew better than the Herald's editors what the British workingman wanted to read. Elias fixed that, had its sales up to 1,000,000 in a fortnight. He repeated the feat last year with...
...advertising manager's own statement, the Ledger lost 15 of its fattest accounts, suffered deep cuts in many another. Supported by money donations from Guild chapters throughout the land, the strikers maintained a running fire from picket lines, loudspeaker trucks, radio stations and a furious sheetlet called The Reporter, until the Ledger marched into court and obtained an injunction against the strikers. So sweeping was the injunction, that even such non-sympathizers as the New York Times and Herald Tribune viewed it with open alarm. To circumvent the court order, non-professional friends of the strikers proceeded to picket...