Word: blethen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Intelligencer, Beck came to the Guild's aid. A mob of his hard-fisted cohorts surrounded the P-I building, beat up fleeing nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave Beck's gun? The shame...
...five minutes one morning last week the Seattle Times stopped its presses, silenced all typewriters and telephones. Death had come, at 62, to Brigadier General Clarance Brettun Blethen, best known of Pacific Northwest publishers...
Bought by his father just before the Klondike Gold Rush, the Times grew with Seattle (circ. 103,434). Blethen wrote its main editorials, originated its layouts, cartoons, slashing civic campaigns, invented several of its printing processes...
...Biggest Blethen battle was with Hearst, who invaded Seattle with the Post-Intelligencer (bought in 1921), spent money like water. Carefully laying his counterattack, General Blethen hired new feature writers, artists, fought Hearst dollar for dollar. Hearst lost. When John Boettiger, the President's son-in-law, became publisher of the P.I., Publisher Blethen ignored him as no threat...