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With all the vigor of a Roy Howard or Robert McCormick, Associate Editor Benjamin ("The Coast Kid") Benson of the Hobo News indignantly declared that things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
...quarterly, the Hobo News was soon converted to a monthly. It is distributed in Manhattan by its editors, elsewhere by itinerants at 5? a copy— 10? "if we can get it." Current edition: 50,000 copies. In an effort to avoid just such an embarrassing situation as Editor Benson found himself in last week, on the back cover appears the legend: NOTICE TO POLICE—This is a Bona Fide Newspaper...
...employment, Jan. 13, 1936. ¶ To questioners at press conference the President reiterated that he knew nothing about plans to cut the price of gold as a check on inflation. ¶ President Roosevelt, with Harry Hopkins at his side, gave audience to Governors Lehman of New York, Benson of Minnesota, La Follette of Wisconsin, Quinn of Rhode Island, who urged him to maintain WPA rolls at their present size (2,200,000), which would make Relief costs about $1,750,000,000 for fiscal 1938, unbalance the budget by about...
Sued. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 31, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil; for $70,000 damages; by his secretary, Edward Benson, who claimed that Rogers had walloped him on the head, inflicting a brain concussion, when he asked why he was being fired; in Manhattan...
Married- Claude Benson Pepper, 36, Florida's new Towsendite-Democratic U. S. Senator; and Irene Mildred Webster, of St. Petersburg; in St. Petersburg...