Word: cowleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly...
When the Cowles family of Des Moines bought the Minneapolis Star last fortnight (TIME, June 24), they acquired the third and weakest newspaper in that community. To them that was no cause for discouragement. Their money-making Des Moines Register & Tribune, which today blankets Iowa like that State's...
Fetish. Deaf to the hoots of his advertising representatives. Publisher Cowles resolved to give out no circulation figures whatever until the Register had 25,000. Then & there he adopted a publishing formula which was to make him rich: He made Circulation a fetish. Hiring & firing one circulation manager after another...
In 1908 the Register gobbled the newly established Tribune. In 1924 Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard) visited Des Moines. asked Gardner Cowles ("G. C.") to call at his hotel. In an hour "G. C." had bought the Scripps-Howard News for $150,000. Three years later the Capital, owned...
John. At 36, with the title of associate publisher, John Cowles is in effect the boss of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. That he is able, is largely due to his intelligent inquisitiveness. Home on holiday from Phillips Exeter 20 years ago small John often would go with his father...