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...Princes." But before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...late great Joseph Pulitzer founded the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878. His capital was $5.200. The paper's circulation started at 987. In 1882 it was earning $85,000 a year. With his profits Publisher Pulitzer bought the New York World in 1883, built it into an even greater newspaper than the Post-Dispatch...
...companies to his sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
Chief item in old Joseph Pulitzer's creed, stated daily since his 60th birthday in the Post-Dispatch masthead, is: ". . . A true newspaper is one that would never be satisfied with merely printing news. ..." The true importance of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is not that it is one of the six largest daily advertising media in the country or that it prints more news and handles it better than any of its competitors, but that its editorial page is a great battering ram of influence on the public opinion of the Midwest. Responsibility for Post-Dispatch editorials...
Stoop-shouldered, scholarly, homely "Charley" Ross had been chief of the Post-Dispatch's Washington bureau since 1918. Graduating from the University of Missouri in 1905, he worked for three years on various newspapers including the Post-Dispatch, then taught copy reading and editorial writing in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri from 1908 to 1918. In 1916 he took a year off, went to Australia, worked on the Melbourne Herald. In Washington no correspondent was more respected by his colleagues than Ross. In 1931 that respect became almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer...