Word: bostontranscript
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...BostonTranscript, voice of the Beacon Hill Brahmins, was badly hurt in the depression, yet its publisher dragged on until 1941. Finally, but only after months of pathetic appeals for financial aid (some of which actually appeared in the Transcript), the paper went under. In 1956, the Boston post, the strident and powerful voice of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts and once the nation's third largest paper, died. ThePost's publisher, John Fox, so firmly believed in the Post's importance as the Democratic standard bearer that he twice managed to revive the paper, in one case after it hadn...
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