When, last December, rotund, boyish Publisher George Fort Milton, 45, had to sell his once prosperous Chattanooga News to Grocer Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, he made himself a martyr to New Dealers. Because Milton had fought Tennessee Electric Power Co. with all his might, and T. E. P. (subsidiary of Wendell Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern) had fought back, leftist journals like The Nation and The New Republic printed tearful articles implying that T. E. P. was largely responsible for driving Milton's News to the wall.
Then Publisher Milton founded...
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