Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basically a Republican newspaper, the Star does not accept a liberal or conservative label, always reserves the right to cross party lines. Roy Roberts was one of the first Eisenhower-for-President crusaders in 1952 and still stands firmly behind Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. But the Star has...
Firming up the Star's editorial positions, the editorial writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage...
Monopoly & Men. Through their public-service crusades, the Kansas City papers hope to erase the taint of monopoly. For years, the Star and the morning Times (and the combined Sunday Star) imperiously forced subscribers to take both papers and made advertisers buy space in both or stay out. In 1955...
The Star and the Times have other problems. In recent years, as mounting costs forced the subscription rate up, both papers suffered the circulation loss inevitable in a rural area where thrift-conscious farmers are inclined to drop the big-city paper rather than pay more. Together, the Star and...
No one in Kansas City thinks that these problems will go unsolved. The dirty old building at 18th Street and Grand Avenue has an almost palpable air of permanence, and Roy Roberts' papers will go on pushing for the main cause to which they were dedicated at birth: what...