Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Court. There was. meanwhile, many another offer less altruistic, addressed not to the employes but to the owners and the Surrogate. Chain-Publisher Paul Block, who is said to have bid $10,000,000 for the Sunday and morning Worlds last August, rushed from the Pacific Coast into court to raise Publisher Howard's best bid by $500.000. But presently he withdrew, having, he said, just learned of the Scripps-Howard contract and the effort of the Worlds' employes. This brought from Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for the employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William...
From Florida, Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett also proposed to top the Scripps-Howard bid, and to keep the World papers alive. And Publisher William Griffin of the New York Enquirer (a paper so obscure that few are aware it has changed from Sunday to daily) wanted to bid. Surrogate Foley made it clear he would conduct no auction, could only decide whether sale was legal and justified. Obviously touched, he listened solemnly to the plea of the employes, advised them to make their best offer to the Pulitzers directly, reserved decision again, until that night...
...Press and resolved always to keep himself and his work close to the plain people. This appears to have been the expression of a business conviction rather than a spiritual necessity, however. Soon after his first Press began making money, Publisher Scripps began what amounted to the invention of chain journalism. His system: find an ambitious young man, stake him as cheaply as possible (the way E. W. Scripps began), let him be part owner; the greater the young man's profits, the greater E. W. Scripps's. It was as an editorial success formula that Publisher Scripps...
...rugged and loud, Publisher Scripps was fair. He saw and honored Howard's point and let him, with Son Robert P. Scripps, step in to renovate the chain's policy...
...upspokenness of Roy Howard was what took him from hawking newspapers in Indianapolis to the top of the largest U. S. newspaper chain (now 25 strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with...