Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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''For the second successive Saturday night, Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc. . . . sent an order to Philadelphia newsboys and dealers which said, in effect: 'If you continue to sell Sunday Records, you will not be permitted to sell Sunday Inquirers or Sunday Ledgers.' That was at 7:30 Saturday evening.
Chit-Chat. In hallways and hotelrooms outside the meetings, an outstanding subject for chit-chat was a circulation fight last fortnight between the Philadelphia Record and the Curtis-Martin papers (Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer). An article by the Record had told the story thus:
"This order was obeyed by eleven dealers in West Philadelphia. But in all other sections of the city it was universally ignored except in the case of Clarence Brown, a blind man. . . . At 9:45 Saturday night, a new order was sent from the Curtis-Martin offices, which said in...
"That mandate was obeyed 100 per cent all over town. Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc., was like the determined master with the disobedient pup.
In this episode, the profession thought it saw part of an explanation for Curtis-Martin's expensive acquisition in March of the Philadelphia Inquirer, a purchase that left only the Record between Curtis-Martin and monopoly of the morning field. Gloat by Publisher Julius David Stern of the Record: