Word: thackrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from-formidable Post, which was turned down recently when it tried to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, yearns to invade the Golden Gate newspaper field. Despite its small Manhattan circulation (207,524), the Post has big money behind it: Owner-publisher Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer Thackrey is the granddaughter of the late Wall Street Banker Jacob Schiff...
Post Editor Ted O. Thackrey (whose wife is the boss) explained the reasoning behind the Post's conference special: "With only the two Hearst papers, a Scripps-Howard paper and a Chronicle in town, delegates would get essentially a very conservative view. We think they need the Post's type of reporting...
...several weeks, said Editor Thackrey, he had given her "space for her verbal tears of compassion for the ordinary Germans," although her views were "repugnant." Now Editor Thackrey baldly questioned her credentials as an expert: "Miss Thompson persuaded us once before . . . that Hitlerism would never be accepted by the German people...
Replied Miss Thompson, in effect: Editor Thackrey doesn't know a straddle when he sees one. Said she: "In the article referred to, written in 1931, I weighed the pros and cons . . . and threw the weight of my argument against the probability of Hitler obtaining a parliamentary majority. But in the concluding sentence of the article, I again left the question open...
...other target was hit even harder. Columnist Mowrer had accused the Vatican of "supporting fascism against democracy" before the war, and wanted to know the future political designs of U.S. Roman Catholics. Such language, said Thackrey, who had printed it, was "intolerant . . . designed to insult his fellow Americans of the Roman Catholic faith." It was "stupid . . . Ku Klux Klanism, and worse. . . . No conscious fascist could have phrased it better." At week's end Mowrer had not chosen to reply in print. Said he: "Of course I could go down and talk it out with Thackrey, but my tailor hasn...