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What U. S. Negroes are eager to hear about Russia is the truth of the so-called "lynching incident" (the Negro was not lynched) in a Soviet factory at Kharkov. The story, as retold last week by Communist Patterson: "Lewis and Brown, two white Americans from the South who were working side by side in a large tractor plant in Kharkov with Robinson, an American Negro, objected to his eating in the same dining room with them. When brought to trial, their fellow-workers found them guilty of race discrimination and sentenced them to two years in prison or expulsion...
...Russia, according to Communist Patterson, he made his living by writing and lecturing on Capitalist countries. He now plans to make it in the U. S. by writing, lecturing on Red Russia...
...Figures. Extinguishing the dying Worlds brought Publishers Scripps & Howard into strong national relief. Mr. Hearst is aging; his sons are youths. Mr. Ochs and Mr. Reid are great conservative impersonalities. Mr. Curtis never has loomed as a newspaper publisher. Except for Publishers Patterson & McCormick, there are no other national newspaper personages except Chain-publishers Robert Paine Scripps and Roy Wilson Howard...
...city-rooms of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, editors gasped and whistled to themselves as they took a story. Their employers, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, suddenly, unexpectedly, had sold their nickel-weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden...
Liberty had been Publisher Patterson's especial pride. When the money-making Daily News proved no outlet for the Tribune's profits, he deliberately set himself (in 1924) to challenge the Saturday Evening Post. He aimed at a slightly more jazz-loving level of the public than Satevepost's audience is supposed to be. Spending some $14,000,000 he got as high as 2,470,882 readers. (Satevepost has been more than 3,000,000.) In 1929 he prophesied: "We estimate that in 1935 Liberty will have the largest magazine circulation in the world." He even...