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...dissatisfaction. Those who either wrote chapters of the book or materially contributed ideas and information are supposed to include (though each diplomatically denies it) Farmer Murphy and Drew Pearson of the Baltimore Sun, Robert S. Allen of the Christian Science Monitor, George Abell of the Washington Daily News, Charles Ross and Paul Y. Anderson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ray Tucker of the New York World-Telegram and Ruby Black, freelance...
...inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise-Messrs. Ross, Anderson, Pearson, Murphy et al.-are, by no great coincidence, members of the Georgetown Group...
...advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went to Europe. When he got back his job was gone...
...terror of the Boise Basin's greatest natural disaster was added a new. worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
...tomb of Tutankhamen. Observers noted how quickly the name of Morgan popped into the headlines now that there was no question of conflicting with French policies. Morgan headed the list of 110 U. S. banks which underwrote the U. S. half of the loan. Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, flew to Paris and arranged details of the other $200,000,000 with the Bank of France. None of this money will be used to pay off the $243,000,000 which was loaned Britain...