Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the State of Ohio, in the persons of three Common Pleas judges, found "reasonable doubt" that four officials of the Youngstown Telegram deliberately padded the circulation figures of their newspaper, as 53 employes and ex-employes had testified that the officials had done (TIME, Nov. 28). But while "reasonable doubt" is innocence in law. its implied question was far from an adequate vindication to the Telegram, member of the Scripps-Howard organization, to whom "fearless honesty" is the prime virtue...
...Telegram had moved to dismiss the case but wanted the court to reserve decision long enough for Telegram witnesses to refute some of the State's horrid testimony. The court ignored the request, dismissed without ado. Next day Editor Felix Bruner told Telegram readers-and all 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers reprinted-what the defense would have said if it had the chance: C. That prosecution's witnesses were disgruntled employes discharged by Scripps-Howard...
...even." He, and several other ex-Telegram employes now working for the Vindicator, were state witnesses...
...vigorous liberalism, fearless honesty. Newsreaders were shocked last week to read testimony which, if true, would smirch Scripps-Howard with one of the lowest tricks in the newspaper business-padding circulation figures. The scene was the trial, for fraud, of four officials of Scripps-Howard's Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram. Facts: In October 1931, the Telegram declared its average circulation for the previous six months to be 35,610. Audit Bureau of Circulation investigated, found the figure too high. The Telegram made its own investigation, removed the circulation manager, published in December an amended figure: 34,698. Prosecutor...
...following telegram has been received by the CRIMSON from Dwight F. Davis...