The Press: Exit Verne Marshall

Ordinarily the annual election of officers on the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette is strictly local news, if that, but this year it was different. Elections last week involved a conspicuous character. He was Verne Marshall, recent Gazette editor and fireball isolationist head of the No Foreign War Committee. The Gazette Co. supplanted him as secretary, which put him clean out of the newspaper.

Editor Marshall dropped out of sight with astonishing completeness when the No Foreign War Committee closed up shop two months ago. So isolated last week was Isolationist Marshall that even his own family made a mystery of his whereabouts....

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