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...Scripps-Howard star reporter emerged last week as a full-fledged columnist. Thomas Lunsford ("Tom") Stokes signed a new contract with United Feature Syndicate, and went to the head of the columnar class in the New York World-Telegram, bellwether of the Scripps-Howard chain. Stokes's column was appearing in 63 other newspapers, plus 32 in which it was temporarily replacing Ernie Pyle...
...spot in the World-Telegram's column of columns was last regularly occupied by Westbrook Pegler, now gone to Hearst.* But the boots that Tom Stokes is really setting out to fill are those of his great & good friend, the late Raymond Clapper...
William Henry Chamberlin is a scholarly author whose twelve years (1922-34) as the Christian Science Monitor's Moscow correspondent changed him from an ardent admirer of Communism into a disillusioned critic (Collectivism-A False Utopia). This week, writing in Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, he gave his verdict on the significance of the Browder-Hillman campaign for Term IV, Said...
...York World-Telegram, Financial Editor Ralph Hendershot wrote: "Granting stock options to officials of corporations is beginning to be almost a habit. . . . The wave of options (other terms are used in many instances) currently being proposed are designed chiefly to avoid income taxes. If salaries are increased for those already drawing down large amounts, the bulk of the increase would be paid in taxes. . . . These companies evidently believe that through these stock options, capital gains can be created, in which event the tax is only...
Increased production costs are driving up the price of U.S. newspapers. This week the three Detroit papers (News, Free Press, Times) upped their Sunday editions from 12? to 15?, upped their weekday price to 5?. In New York City last week, the Sun and the World-Telegram went to 5?, made the city's evening papers unanimous...