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...prowled leisurely along, centring its initial snooping on the affairs of the city-owned station WNYC. Last week the probers unearthed one Alexander Leftwich Jr., who claimed he had been fired as assistant in WNYC's dramatic department for refusing to produce a show that was "red as hell." Replied Director Morris Novik of WNYC: "He lacked a sense of social significance...
This is only the beginning of Cash's analysis, but it is the basis for all that follows. With great pity and firmness, he analyzes how bitterly those traits and patterns were intensified under the hell of Reconstruction; in what anger, hope and innocence the great wave of cotton mills rose up; how the mill hands were exploited in the name of patriotism and progress; how these iron plantations perpetuated the ancient pre-War patterns of the soil...
...quarter-century, through hell & high water, Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson had cherished beyond all other friends his pal Max Annenberg. They had met when Max, forsaking Hearst, was strong-arming his way up as powerful circulation builder for the Chicago Tribune; friendship had deepened as the German-Jewish ex-newsboy pushed circulation of Publisher Patterson's New York Daily News to the largest...
This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time the world has gone to hell...
There are two possibilities about Powys. One is that he is just as innocent and headlong as he seems. The other is that, like Ted Lewis or the latter-day John Barrymore, he is a master of ham-for-the-hell-of-it, a talented and laughing charlatan who gives the people super-portions of what they seem to want. In either case, he makes his audience uncomfortable, but he holds them...