Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulletin stated in effect, "appeared in New York Surrogate's Court to apply as trustees for permission to break the will of their father, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the New York Worlds (morning, evening & Sunday) to permit the sale of the papers to the Scripps-Howard chain...
...inept sons who had not given their employes any warning, any chance to take the papers over and keep them running. Someone suggested that the employes band together now-surely the money could be found to save the Worlds from extinction and, worse, from chain journalism. The staff rallied swiftly. Like the foreword of doom on the preceding day, the call swept through the building, dispelling for the time the depression that hung there, bringing enthusiastic response from all departments. Executives pledged thousands; reporters put themselves down for hundreds ; copy boys telephoned their mothers to ask if they might subscribe...
...various topic headings he considers are the Associated Press, the United Press, the chain daily, standardization of the daily, the conditions in Philadelphia, what is wrong with the "World" (R. I. P.), the copper trust monopoly of newspapers in Montana, and the opportunity in the press of the small cities. His article on the now lamented "World" is particularly of timely interest and presents fairly clearly a number of the problems which the younger Pulitzers found themselves unable to solve...
...Evening Express, oldest daily in the city. Next day was confirmed the report of the sale-not to Hearst but to his loyal friend and admirer, Publisher Paul Block, for a reputed price of $2,800,000. Publisher Block thereby made nationwide, and ten in number, his fast-growing chain of dailies. In Los Angeles last week he proudly took possession from Publisher Guy Chaffee Earl Jr. (principal owner) and Editor Edward Augustus Dickson...
...lady once informed in detail of the workings of a bicycle, how the motive power was transferred by chain and cogs from the pedals to the rear wheel, reflected and inquired, "I see; but what makes the front wheel go?" The workings of the CRIMSON candidate is an open secret; hundreds of him have pushed open the green doors of University Hall: from the top floor of the Baker Library across the Charles to the inner formidable recesses of Langdell Hall he has wended his way almost daily throughout the academic years. Less perhaps is known by those who serve...