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Died. Walter Ansel Strong, 47, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, president of The Chicago Daily News Inc. which bought it in 1925 after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily...
Having learned three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable...
...Journal was bought by the Chicago Daily News, whose new plaza is the most beautiful spot in Chicago. Leader in the Chicago evening paper field, the News was founded in 1875, made great by the late Victor Fremont Lawson and the late Melville Elijah Stone, passing to Walter Ansel Strong after the death of Mr. Lawson...
...banquet. Seymour Parker Gilbert, "Dawes plan' administrator, sat down. He was guest of honor. Vice President Dawes, president of the Central Trust Co., sat down. He was host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor...
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