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...Child Labor, as on Freedom of the Press, there has been a sharp difference of opinion between the Chicago Tribune and its lively Manhattan tabloid offspring, the Daily News, which now claims the biggest U. S. circulation (1,440,000 daily; 2,000,000 Sunday).* The News, which considered the Freedom of the Press scare silly, last week was one of the few newspapers to come out against child labor...
...November 1929 the Winchell column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
...finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor to give the sheet circulation. But still the Post did not fatten and thrive. Lately it has been losing money at the rate of $25,000 per week. When the experiment of making it a tabloid last September failed Publisher Martin could think of only one more thing. By last fortnight, all New York knew that the Post would presently be sold or scrapped...
...occurred in any other week, would have been relatively unimportant. As it was, Conservative Mr. Ritchie found himself in the same boat with Conservative Mr. Hoover, whom he had often criticized. So completely had a nation-wide fog of emotion obliterated the channels of logic that the tabloid New York Daily News observed: "Our own notion is that it is another chapter in the world-old story of the fight between the Haves and the Havenots. We think the plebeians and the patricians, the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, the nobles and the sans-culottes, are at it again today...
...regretted that ideals once formed should be shattered and fine conceptions overturned. In the past TIME has won its way to public favor through its accuracy in presenting current events in a crisp, snappy and concise style, and in giving to its readers information in tabloid form, and thus vitalizing its news, rather than fictitious stories, interesting because they are scurrilous...