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...convicted of labor-union terrorism, were freed without Parole Board recommendations. In New York City only the Daily Worker, Communist organ, carried the news. Other papers ignored it for ten days. The Worker carried another story, welcoming the labor terrorists back to the fold. Then the New York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander Hoffman, C.I.O. union official and Left...
Those words, spoken six years ago and never retracted, rose last week from the files of the New York World Telegram to plague their speaker, Dr. Frank Buchman. They also plagued 28 of his followers, all draft-age aliens, who were the center of one of the few big foofooraws yet kicked up about administration of the Selective Service...
...Times, Herald Tribune, Daily News, Mirror, World-Telegram, Post, Sun, Journal-American, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, plus Brooklyn Citizen and Long Island Star-Journal...
...Brooklyn Eagle and the tabloid PM (published in Brooklyn) were unaffected. New York's four morning papers (Times, Herald Tribune, News and Mirror) and four evening papers (World-Telegram, Post, Sun and Journal-American) continued to go through the motions of publishing to be ready for the strike's end, but only a handful of their papers reached the streets. The Times ran off about 35,000 for mail subscribers (the copies to be mailed when the strike ends) and another 7,000 which were sold fast at the Times building...
...when the afternoon Portland Journal was only four months old but already dying of stiff competition (from the morning Oregonian and the now defunct Portland Telegram), Sam Jackson moved to Portland, bought it, with it proceeded to acquire profits and prestige...