Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Republican Green is expected to give Kelly & crew at least a good workout before election day, April 4. Long-shot bettors pointed out that his primary vote (211,965) was almost as large as that polled by the late Democrat Anton J. ("Tony") Cermak when he upset Chicago's Republicans...
Last fortnight in Chicago, Joseph Vincent Connolly, general manager of all Hearstpapers, and half-a-dozen other Hearst bigwigs were frantically trying to do something about the gasping Herald & Examiner, struck by the Newspaper Guild and thinned by advertisers. The Herex is a favorite paper of Mr. Hearst's. But Mr. Hearst was not in Chicago...
...responsible for wangling a new mortgage out of Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence John Shearn. Though he stepped down from the bench 20 years ago, he still likes to be called Judge Shearn. When Hearst was a liberal crusader in the early 19003 Clarence Shearn was his lawyer. His last big job before he became Hearst's boss 21 months ago was as trial...
These papers are headaches: Milwaukee News-Sentinel, Atlanta Georgian (Sunday American), Chicago American (which lost $500,000 last year) and Herald & Examiner. Badgered by the Guild strike (which, however, appeared near settlement last week), the Herex has lost $500,000 in advertising since December. For years the Herex has been able to pay interest on its bonds only because it collects $750,000 a year rent from the American. But its Sunday edition sells 1,000,000 American Weeklies. Joe Connolly is working desperately to save Chicago for Hearst, and his success or failure may determine whether Hearst remains...
...Hearst had newspapers in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, had started buying magazines, and was easily No. i U. S. publisher. That was the year he printed the famed Standard Oil letters revealing bribery of U. S. Senators, high point in Hearst's career as a liberal muckraker...