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...Correspondent Essary's prize-winning article, published March 5, 1931, was cited for "reportorial skill and industry in bringing to light the hitherto unknown facts and circumstances of the Wickersham Commission's exhaustive report on Prohibition." Honorably mentioned for their work were Charles Griffith Ross (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Walker Showers Buel (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Ashmun Norris Brown (Providence Journal), Harry W. Frantz (United Press), Drew Pearson (Baltimore Sun), John Snure Jr. (Washington Times...
...gold medal to the Indianapolis (Ind.) News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. Correspondence: $500 to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his articles on Russia; $500 to Charles G. Boss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year...
Seven years ago Governor Ross Shaw Sterling of Texas, as publisher, combined his newly acquired Houston Dispatch (onetime Klan paper) with the venerable Houston Post and called the amalgam the Post-Dispatch. Shortly thereafter the famed St. Louis Post-Dispatch went to Federal Court in Houston and demanded that Publisher Sterling change the name of his paper. Throughout the Southwest, they said, the Post-Dispatch was understood to mean the St. Louis paper. The court denied the suit. Last week Publisher J . Josey, who acquired the Post-Dispatch from Governor Sterling two months ago. voluntarily shortened its name...
...child of Cornelia Lane Anderson, first of Author Anderson's three divorced wives. Educated in a Michigan City (Ind.) high school. Bob attended University of Virginia for a year, worked as a newsgatherer and rewrite man on the Michigan City News, New Orleans Item-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Vincennes (Ind.) Sun, Roanoke (Va.) Times, Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Marion papers he writes under the signature of "Zip Coon" (the elder Anderson signs himself "Buck Fever of Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer...
Many Texans nodded sagely, insisted that Mr. Josey was merely a dummy for Banker Jones who would eventually take over the Post-Dispatch. Both men firmly denied...