Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan performed the ceremony and transmitted a special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar and have a chat-Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey, Boss George E. Brennan of Illinois, Norman E. Mack of Buffalo and the Bosses of Syracuse and Utica...
...long a power in Rochester by virtue of his evening paper, the Times-Union, rose to the ranks of the city's greatest, stood close beside Cameraman Eastman, when he went last week to his bankers and borrowed most or all of $3,500,000 to buy the Democrat and Chronicle...
...land in Central New York, it is just possible on clear days to see the spires of Rochester's churches. Frank Gannett's father, Joseph, cleared this hill, built the house where Frank was born, 51 years ago. As a boy of twelve he peddled the Democrat and Chronicle. He has never forgotten his "early attachment...
...raised advertising rates. A dozen department stores, angered by a new high schedule, recently decided to boycott Gannett, refused their advertising. A short deadlock, and business and the press reached a compromise. Gannett and Rochester realized their need of each other. Even as he announced the purchase of the Democrat and Chronicle, the Times-Union was opening a $1,500,000 plant...
...years, now stands sixth in the nation in classified advertising lineage. It is devoted to the cause of good Republicanism and Mr. Gannett will not interfere. He reassures the doubtful: "It is my belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...