Word: annenberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more youthful News, founded in 1925, swore allegiance to the Democratic Party from 1954 to '57, when it belonged to Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, longtime treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. In 1957 McCloskey sold it to Annenberg and the paper returned to the Republican fold...
Last week Johnson picked up two more metropolitan Republican prizes: Walter Annenberg's Philadelphia papers, the morning Inquirer and the evening News. Said the Inquirer, which had never in 135 years backed a Democrat for President*: "This newspaper is convinced that it would be disastrous for this nation, disastrous for the two-party system, and disastrous for world peace, to have Barry Goldwater in the White House...
...Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...