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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Mr. Hearst, who has five grown sons, Publisher Gannett at 59 has only one son, Dixon, aged 6. His daughter Sara ("Sally") at 12 has no ambition to run a chain of newspapers, even the Gannett chain, which, unlike others, virtually runs itself. Publisher Gannett has provided for his family independently of the Foundation, in which they have no interest, but he has no intention of leaving his son & heir a large fortune...
Antithesis of the late hated Chain Publisher Frank Munsey, Frank Gannett gives his editors a free hand, signs his name to anything he asks them to publish in conflict with the papers' policies. For supervising his autonomous brood he draws an aggregate salary of $64,370 a year. Politically he is independent. A Hooverite and a Dry in 1932. he became a New Dealer through his interest in managed currency and his friendship with its No. 1 manager, Cornell's famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment...
Defying all the laws of ballistics, the Powell performance trajectory kept going up & up. He was made assistant to executive Editor Lee Wood of the World-Telegram. Nearly three years ago he became Editor of the Indianapolis Times (circ.: 80,000 ). a pet paper of chain-publisher Roy Howard because it was in Indianapolis, 33 years ago. that he got his first job writing high-school sports. On the Times Editor Powell's flair for dramatizing news soon whipped circulation and profits up 20%. Last year his performance curve reached a new high when he went out to investigate...
...decision of the Commuters' Center Committee, will in the future be admitted to the facilities of Dudley Hall. Otherwise they would have been forced to pay the regular high prices for individual meals at the Union. The action was small, but good, and forms the last link in the chain which now encompasses, circles, solves, even finishes, for ever and ever, that historical phenomenon,--the Commuters' Problem...
...been vice chairman of the trustees of Garrett Biblical Institute and a pillar of First Church in Evanston. Burt Denman has lately had cause to wonder about Methodism. In Hearst-papers he has seen its preachers attacked as Reds. In Methodist journals like Zion's Herald and the chain of Advocates he has read editorials criticizing businessmen, bankers and especially utilitarians like himself. He has heard bold sermons even in First Church, out of the side of the mouth of popular, liberal Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle...