Word: bitner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit to stave off the crisis, told Hearst he would have to live on whatever allowance could be spared from, his creditors. He gathered around him a staff of top-flight Hearst executives headed by the Chief's old favorite, Thomas J. White, and consisting of Harry M. Bitner, general manager of newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire service and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; Frej E. Hagelberg, auditor; and W. R. Hearst Jr., ablest of the sons, to represent the family...
...rapid succession Executive Bitner and Hearst himself junked papers in Rochester and Omaha, leased the Washington Times to Cissie Patterson (who bought both Times and Herald outright this year), sold Hearst's half-interest in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, combined the staffs of morning and evening papers in Milwaukee, folded Universal Service into International News, tabbed the Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate...
Down went the stars of Executives White and Bitner, up went the star of Joe Connolly. Tom White kept his title but lost his authority, Harry Bitner lost both. Cherubic Joe Connolly became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, responsible directly to Judge Shearn. Photographed looking up at tall Joe Connolly at a Gridiron Club dinner (see cut, p. 49) stubby Clarence Shearn cracked: "That's just the way it is. I'm looking up and saying: 'Save us, Joe, save...
Last week it seemed that the principal Hearst princeling would be Joseph Vincent Connolly, who fortnight ago displaced Harry Murray Bitner as general manager of the Hearst Newspapers. Grey-haired, 43-year-old Joe Connolly became a Hearstling 18 years ago to organize promotion for King Features Syndicate. Within eight years he was general manager; in 1934, he became its president. By liberal use of Hearst money, he made King Features the best-known collection of cartoonists, funnymen, columnists, political experts and love advisers in the U. S. Today, it is one of the most profitable, most admired of Hearst...
...Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, finally accepted its advice to scotch wild rumors by making the trusteeship known publicly. And in October, Trustee Shearn set up a supreme council of top-ranking Hearst executives: Thomas J. White, chief of the Hearst organization and liaison man with "The Chief"; Harry M. Bitner, general manager of Hearst newspapers; Richard E. Berlin, publisher of Hearst magazines; Joseph V. Connolly, head of features, wire services and radio; Martin F. Huberth, real-estate adviser; F. E. Hagelberg, general auditor; W. R. Hearst...