Word: tribuneman
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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TIME (Nov. 7) reports the offer of the Madison (Wis.) Capital-Times to donate $1000 to charity if Chicago Tribuneman Chesly Manly can prove the truth of his story that the La Follette (Civil Liberties) inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, and used to smear and intimidate employers opposed...
...will give $100 to any charity designated by TIME if Tribuneman Edwards can prove the truth of that statement to the satisfaction of any judge designated by TIME. More- I will give $100 under the same terms if I cannot prove, by the evidence of my dispatches published in the St. Louis Star-Times, by the records of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and by the testimony of press association and other reporters, that I attended the five consecutive sessions of the committee from October 17 to 21, inclusive, which covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including...
Down across the Wisconsin-Illinois border last week the spunky little Madison Capital Times (circulation: 28,000) shouted a remarkable challenge to the Goliath-like Chicago Tribune (circulation 900,000). The challenge: Let Tribuneman Chesly Manly prove the truth of a certain statement in one of his recent dispatches from Washington, and the Capital Times would immediately pay $1,000 to any charity the Tribune might name. The statement in question: "La Follette's so-called [Civil Liberties Committee] inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt...
...With the New York situation thus temporarily solved, General Manager Connolly's first concern became Chicago, where the profitless morning Herald & Examiner was stumped by the sprawling domination of Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune, and the evening American was suffering from the sprightly competition of onetime Tribuneman Samuel Emory Thomason's tabloid Times...
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