The Quitter (1934)

When her husband who founded the towns crusading local newspaper doesnt come back from the French battlefields of World War I a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going Matters are complicated by the fact that several years later one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hardfighting champion of the workingclass into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another mans identity and is still living there