Word: curtises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's oldest morning daily, the Inquirer was founded in 1829 and bought by Colonel James Elverson 60 years later. Colonel Elverson's daughter, an international belle, married French Ambassador Jules Paternõtre in the 1890's, inherited the Inquirer at her brother's death...
Under the Curtis-Martin ownership the Inquirer started downhill to failure. Combining it with the famed old Public Ledger failed to slow its descent. In 1934 the Inquirer bounced back on the Paternõtres when the Curtis-Martin interests could no longer pay off their recurrent notes. Still carrying...
*The Evening Ledger was not involved in the combination, remains the property of the Curtis-Martin interests.
Last week Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. totted up circulation and revenue for the first six months of 1936. When the audit was completed, President Walter Dean Fuller announced that, between them, The Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman and Ladies' Home Journal had gained some 418,000 readers...
Such good news for Curtis shareholders was slightly soured by Mr. Fuller's calculation that each share of the $7 preferred stock had paid 23% of its earnings in taxes, leaving a dividend of only $4.75 for the investor. Recapitulating, Mr. Fuller also gave it as his gloomy opinion...