Word: chain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...
...Raymond Saulnier, as its chairman. ¶ Accepted the resignation of his assistant for federal-state relations: Arizona's ex-Governor Howard Pyle, who is leaving to head the National Safety Council. ¶ Held a get-together with brothers Edgar (Tacoma lawyer), Earl (general manager of an Illinois newspaper chain), and Milton (president of Johns Hopkins University) to celebrate Edgar's 70th birthday. ¶ Boosted the U.S. exhibition that is to be held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park next summer as "about the best investment of money this Government has made in a long time." Estimated cost...
Into that situation moved the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, charging Harte-Hanks with conspiring to restrain trade. The chain, said the government, intentionally operated the Banner at a loss and used revenues from its other newspapers to finance the loss. Harte-Hanks lawyers argued that free competition, not a conspiracy, had made Greenville a one-newspaper town. Greenville, they said, is too small to support two dailies. Last week in Dallas U.S. District Judge T. Whitfield Davidson dismissed the antitrust suit against Harte-Hanks. Said Judge Davidson: "Justice Holmes has said that...
...Poet-Hero. In 1895 a frail, romantic poet renewed the call to freedom. He was José Martí, who had spent six months in ball and chain for such lines...