The Press: Mr. Dieter

One of the liveliest of current press feuds breaks out now & then between Chicago's rumbling, reactionary Tribune and its tabloid, New Dealing Times.

Last week the Tribune, pawing an A. P. regional report for dirt on the New Deal, let out a roar. Its 857,963 readers were informed that, although one Edward M. Dieter had been listed as postmaster for Woodstock, Ill. (pop. 5,471), no one in Woodstock or Washington had ever heard of Mr. Dieter. After assuring itself in Washington that the Woodstock appointment had gone as scheduled to William W. Desmond,...

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