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Speaking of Philadelphia's presentation, the article states merely: "Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver." The word "tout" has definitely a cheap and unpleasant significance. If I correctly understand the common meaning of that word, there was no touting by any member of the Philadelphia delegation...
Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...
President of the new company is Capital Publisher Arthur Capper, Kansas' antique U.S. Senator, president of the world's biggest farm press (monthly distribution: 9,000,000 copies). Vice president is State Journal Publisher Oscar Stauffer, owner of an eight-paper Western newspaper chain (circ. 76,000), who bought the Journal in 1940 for $600,000, revived it from a shaky 17,000 circulation to 24,000 in a year...
Ownership and editorial independence of the rival papers remain as before. Well circulated, however, is the rumor that an unannounced clause in the agreement calls for State Journal support of Capper's candidacy for re-election in 1942. Both Capper and Stauffer are isolationist...
...Oscar Stauffer, 21 years younger than Arthur Capper, is a tolerant critic of Roosevelt's foreign policy. But Arthur Capper blankets northeast and central Kansas with isolationist sentiments equaled in venom only by the Chicago Tribune...