Elmer Davis

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded. ”

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. ”

The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines. ”

It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War. ”

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side. ”

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ”