Word: chattanooga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ADOLPH SHELBY OCHS General Manager The Chattanooga Times Chattanooga, Tenn...
...Publisher McDonald (Chattanooga Free Press) hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300)." (TIME, Sept...
TIME itself, rather than Mr. McDonald, seems to be guilty of circulation theft, having swiped, in the paragraph quoted above, 3,859 Sunday readers. The average net paid circulation of the Chattanooga Sunday Times for March 1936 (month before Sunday Free Press started publication) was 38,785; for August...
...some two years after its founding in May 1933, the sheet was a weekly give-away appearing on Thursday afternoons. It was started by a 35-year-old groceryman named Roy McDonald who built up a chain of 50 stores in Chattanooga, wanted to advertise them but thought space rates in the Times and News too high. For some reason, his little Free Press caught the public fancy. Last year it got a real boost when the Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free...
Publisher McDonald hopes to steal readers on weekdays from the News (circ. 36,000), on Sundays from the Times (circ. 36,300). He declares that Chattanooga is tired of the radical policies of the News, whose Editor George Fort Milton (The Age of Hate) is notably "agin" the local power company. The Free Press is as ardently pro-Landon as the nearby Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged...