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...petitions and resolutions. Puerto Ricans in New York City formed a Save Collazo Committee, got 30,000 signatures on a clemency petition. From Puerto Rico came messages pointing out that the island has no death penalty. Last week Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Mufioz Marin sent an urgent telegram to the White House. The U.S. State Department advised the President that the execution of Collazo would damage U.S.. relations with all Latin America. Eight days before Collazo's anticipated martyrdom, and one day before Puerto Rico became a "free commonwealth" (see above), President Truman commuted the sentence...
...will go Joseph Ridder, 32, now general manager of the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press. The Ridders picked well. They have a monopoly in San Jose and dominate an expanding industrial area. They now have their eyes on two other California papers, the Long Beach Independent and Press-Telegram...
When Mitchell was not personally beating up the Star's hoodlums with his bare fists, he somehow managed, singlehanded, to originate most of the advancements of modern journalism. Like the New York Evening Telegram's James Gordon Bennett, Mitchell put editorial cartoons on the front page for the first time. Like the World's Joseph Pulitzer, he used banner headlines, developed reader promotion, and went in for crusades and stunts, e.g., raising a fund to build the Statue of Liberty pedestal. He also brought out several daily editions of the Globe, inaugurated newsstands, and encouraged Ottmar Mergenthaler...
...political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler...
Franklin Roosevelt mumbled a half-apology in a "Dear Alben" telegram. But five months later, when Barkley was getting ready to nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...