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Editors Deplore Illinois Secret Pay for Newsmen
A board of 15 editors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors condemned state government salaries paid to Illinois newspapermen between 1941 and 1949 under Gov. Dwight Green. The report urged probes elsewhere, praised Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch for exposing the 51 cases, and urged full disclosure and ethical standards in press-government relations.
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Ashington
Illinois
The
American
Chicago Daily News
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dwight H. Green
Chicago
St. Louis
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Tulsa Tribune
A. Y. Aronson
Louisville Times
John W. Hillman
Indianapolis News
B. M. McKelway
Washington Star
U.S.N.E
Virginius Dabney
Richmond Times- Dispatch
N. R. Howard
Cleveland News
Alexander F. Jones
Washington Post
David Lawrence
U. S. News & World Report
Hamilton Owens
Baltimore Sun