Word: danae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan the Sun celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Ben Day's idea. It got out a 104-page edition describing the history of the Sun from Day through Charles Anderson Dana down to the present ownership. Included was a reprint of the Sun's first issue...
...silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...
...Dana had been managing editor of the potent Tribune under Horace Greeley but had resigned because of repeated differences. For Dana, the country boy who had clerked in a Buffalo store, gone to Harvard for three years until eye-strain forced him out, ownership of the Sun was a third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur...
...Dana's years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform...
...haunted city room a patient, portly gentleman named Chester Sanders Lord was doing for the Sun's news coverage what Dana was doing for its editorial prestige. It was "Boss" Lord (he died last month at 83, nationally remembered) who worked out the Sun's own system for gathering election returns in the Cleveland-Elaine campaign. He announced correctly that Cleveland had carried New York when all the other papers had conceded it to Elaine. Boss Lord's figures were within 50 votes of the official count. When Dana broke off relations with the Associated Press...