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The Press: Tactful William

In Manhattan every Sunday afternoon is published a flamboyant newspaper called the New York Enquirer. The Enquirer's headlines are so big & black that they have ceased to attract attention; its circulation is not listed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Enquirer is violently anti-New Deal, violently pro-William Randolph Hearst, which has led some people to suspect that Mr. Hearst was an angel to the activities of its publisher, flamboyant William Griffin.

Although his grandfather migrated to Missouri some 100 years ago, Publisher Griffin is a professional Irishman. Nine months of the year he is a loyal Tammany man; in summer...

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