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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country's greatest reporters was out of a job last week, perhaps more to his own surprise than to that of Washington correspondents who have been his admiring friends for 15 years. Paul Y.* Anderson gave the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the best 23 of his 44 years, helped earn it great prestige and himself a $16,000 salary, finally won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize with an almost single-handed crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington...
Abruptly was ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were...
...months ago St. Louis was one of the worst one-week stands in the U. S. But last fall 586 St. Louisans, from Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann down, joined a subscription group, the Playgoers, guaranteed basic audiences for touring companies. By last week ten good plays had been royally received in St. Louis, eight more were coming. Showmen checked up, agreed that St. Louis had become the road's best host...
...last week Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, sat up in the sickbed where he had lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
From his sickbed, Bishop Maxon at once wrote a letter to his dean, informing him that "it is convincingly evident to me that you be removed as dean of St. Mary's Cathedral. This removal will take place at once. ... I do not think that you are at present your normal self, and I wish to give you an opportunity to return to your normal self when you will be able to exercise the abilities and spirituality which you so abundantly possess in the spread of Christ's kingdom...