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...History Department, indicative of the overall trend, has named associate professor C. Vann Woodward, of Johns Hopkins University, to teach History 65 and History 5b. The former, entitled History of the South, has not been given since the war, and History 5b was not offered last summer...
...Robert Lee Vann's potent Pittsburgh Courier (circulation: 126,962), for Roosevelt in 1936, this year is for Willkie...
Then hell popped loose in the Negro press. Publisher Robert L. Vann led off with a thundering attack on Editor Brown in his Pittsburgh Courier. Manager Roxborough told an interviewer: "Earl Brown has proved himself just another Uncle Tom who . . . would sell the Negroes of America down the river...
Publisher Robert Lee Vann had just left the University of Pittsburgh with a law degree when he founded the Courier in 1910. Today he is a power in Pennsylvania politics, keeps a handsome home in Oakmont, Pittsburgh suburb. Gross income of the Courier in 1938 was over $500,000. Something like $40,000 of that went to Publisher Vann as profit...
...named Reno Walter Merguson, who fought with the U. S. Army in World War I, stayed on in Paris after the War as a tourist guide. He used to drive Negro travelers over the battlefields in an old automobile, send in items about them to the Courier. Presently Editor Vann gave him a full-time job as the Courier's European correspondent...