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Meanwhile, in the offices of the New York World, Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope read the despatches. It was a good news story, duly featured. Then a week later, he heard rumors that there was more to be found in Aiken than what came in the despatches. His dynamic brain developed action. He called for one of his ablest, muckraking reporters, Oliver H. P. Garrett, said: "Garrett, go to South Carolina. . . ." The World must still crusade. Reporter Garrett went; and for the last fortnight the World's columns have bristled with his stories...
...come for the three Negroes (as originally reported), but had, according to testimony of other prisoners, helped take the Negroes out of jail. The unearthing of this story was attributed to Walter White, Negro, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The exuberant journalism of Editor Swope pushed the issue to the doorstep of Governor Thomas G. McLeod. The World reporter gave it wide publicity and helped bring about an investigation of Sheriff Robinson's alleged offense. A few of the South Carolina newspapers took up the cry of the World against the Sheriff...
...Manhattan Joseph P. Day cuts somewhat of a swath. He is the real estate dealer who in January semi-cyclonically sells lots out of doors and in his shirt sleeves. He is the man who, together with Herbert Bayard Swope (dynamic executive editor of the New York World) and other skillful publicists brought the 1924 Democratic National Convention to Manhattan (TlME, Jan. 28, 1924, PRESS). He knows he is well known. Yet last week he declared himself obscured, declared in paid advertisements in Manhattan newspapers: "The Telephone Company never makes mistakes, but just the same they omitted from...
...offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi, Backbone, Swope, Dangerous, you would have to put up more money to win less. Various opinions Upon this state of affairs were expressed in U. S. currency or friendly promises. The horses went to the barrier, leapt away...
...York World. "They're news, aren't they?"?Herbert B. Swope, Executive Editor...