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...with which to acquire controlling interest in the News. He used the News itself as collateral. If the News failed to show a profit in six months, the loan company was to take over. Boddy worked night & day to improve the six-column ("But it's not a tabloid") paper...
...probably taken in very good part by the Argentine majority, despite their Government. And the Argentine Government was careful to describe the situation as an "episode," rather than an "incident." This week mass meetings in various cities indicated that Chileans were choosing sides and Santiago's evening tabloid, Ultimas Notidas, went so far as to say the government might decide to resign. Various Good Neighbors had already come to Sumner Welles's support. Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia were all reported working for Chilean-U.S. understanding. President Roosevelt sent a message to President Rios hoping that his visit...
...thing that New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Patterson knows for sure is comics. He used them shrewdly to build his tabloid's record daily circulation (1,975,000). He cooked up several comics (the Gumps, Moon Mullins, Dick Tracy), launched the technique of continuing the episode instead of ending it each day. But until last week he had not bought a new strip for nine years...
...York is the capital and crossroads of the world's press. No papers anywhere gather and print more straight news than the morning New York Times and Herald Tribune. The tabloid, comics-choked morning News has the largest daily circulation (2,007,797) of any newspaper. The conservative Sun and its afternoon feature-story rival, the World-Telegram, are commuters' specials. And there are half a dozen other papers not counting The Bronx News...
...morning papers played the story straight. But the angle-grabbing afternoon papers twisted it to mean that LaGuardia was urging youngsters to squeal on their fathers. The tabloid News picked it up and wrote an editorial. The Mayor went purple. Over the air he denounced the papers for helping race-track bookies by printing racing news. He predicted that the press would probably continue to "belittle, ridicule and oppose" his antigambling campaign. In a letter to the News he wrote: "I am sorry you have been misled into believing that I asked boys to peach on their fathers...