Perseverance Pays Off for Santa Barbara Editor Mogul
Thomas M. Storke, at 24, bought the Santa Barbara Independent and built a career as publisher of the Santa Barbara News Press. He helped save Roosevelt's 1932 nomination and drew national attention to the Birch Society in 1961. His memoir I Write for Freedom is published.
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New York
UPI
Santa Barbara
Calif
Thomas M. Storke
Joan
Storke
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Birch Society
McNally
Loftin
Los Angeles Times
Elijah Lovejoy
The
Birch Society
California
Robert Welch
Welch
White House
Congress
State Department
Hiram Johnson
William G. McAdoo
U. S
McAdoo
Monroe Doctrine Merits Disputed in Virginia Tour
In Fredericksburg a museum executive and a Soviet diplomat clashed over the Monroe Doctrine during a James Monroe Memorial Foundation visit. Lawrence G. Hoes argued the doctrine lives while Ignar Kolosovsky called it dead, noting missiles were removed from Cuba. Hoes pressed that history will judge, as Kolosovsky listened with a startled smile.
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Fredericksburg
James Monroe Memorial Foundation
Lawrence G. Hoes
Foundation
Monroe
Ignar Kolosovsky
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
Hoes
Cuba
Roosevelt Clinches Nomination After California Delegation
In a complex 1932 convention scene California backed Franklin D. Roosevelt after delegation shifts. Storke and Cotton recount a push by Republican bankers to realign amid talks with Farley and McAdoo, culminating in Roosevelt securing the nomination and later praise for Rayburn and Storke.
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California
John Nance Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Storke
McAdoo
Ham Cotton
San Francisco
Garner
West Virginia
Cotton
al Smith
James Farley
Farley
Raymond Morley
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Tom Storke
Santa Barbara
Calif
John B. Elliott
United States
Cattle Records Charged Inspector in Cattle Rustling Case
Tom Bowman a Roll resident waived preliminary hearing on two counts of altering official records and was bound over to Yuma County Superior Court in a case involving John Sowards and Bob Ross. Ross and Sowards faced grand theft charges for stealing 14 cattle from a Tacna feed pen and selling them in Phoenix for about 1100 dollars using Bowman inspection slips. Bowman was dismissed from his job before charges filed.
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Yuma
UPI
Tom Bowman
Roll
Yuma County
John Sowards
Bob Ross
Tacna
Maricopa County
Ross
Sowards
Phoenix
Bowman
Mexico
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Thomas M. Storke Newspaper Mogul
Arcadia Women’s Club
Severin Barstad
E. Cypress
Warren Steitz
E. Starlight Way
Nancy McCarthy
City Parks and Recreation
Barstad
Steitz
Kolosovsky
Russia
Sam Malmed
Papago Plaza Merchants Assn
Bill Soderquist
Scottsdale Boys’ Club
China
Tokyo
Bang Pass
Are
Regia
Hanny
I. Miller
Arizona
Hanny’s
West Main Street
Scottsdale
Varsity
First Avenue
Scottsdale Road
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