Word: denvers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other party is Roy Wilson Howard, smartly groomed and quick-witted head of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers. He had stepped into the Denver field two years ago, purchased the Rocky Mountain News (morning) and formed the Evening News to compete with Mr. Bonfils' Post (evening). Mr. Bonfils soon issued a Morning Post (TIME, Jan. 17, 1927). The competition was a vicious fight-a circulation war, a death-grapple for advertising, a snarling in editorials, a sneering in news columns...
...they bury the hatchet? Mr. Howard, returning from a hunting trip in Wyoming, stopped off in Denver, talked with Mr. Bonfils. They talked, off and on, for nearly a week. Finally, each agreed to kill a newspaper. This leaves Denver with the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News for its breakfast table and the Bonfils Post for its afternoon fare, with both for its Sunday picnic. The prices were raised by both publishers from 2? daily and 5? Sunday to 3? daily and 10? Sunday. The Rocky Mountain News added Associated Press service to its United Press service.* The Post added...
...they bury the hatchet? Because newspaper wars, especially long ones, cost money. Because Denver advertisers, and all advertisers, prefer two papers to four papers, especially when the two papers represent monopolies in their respective (morning and evening) fields...
...sportsmanlike desire to give credit where credit is due, compels the frank admission that after having been afforded two years' opportunity to judge of a result which had involved the employment of much ingenuity and the expenditure of several million dollars, an overwhelming majority of the people of Denver and the adjacent newspaper field continued their preference for the type of evening paper produced by F. G. Bonfils in the Evening Post, rather than for the type offered by Scripps-Howard in the Evening News. ... On the other hand, the Rocky Mountain News under Scripps-Howard management has enjoyed...
...Rudolph never did retire. In 1906 he turned crusader, organized and financed the war against graft in the state and city government. He promised to go on to New York, Chicago, Denver. Bitter were the attacks on his sincerity, his aims. His wife and family were insulted on the street. Son Rudolph replied that he had never voted and vowed he would never hold office. This promise he has kept. He has not yet carried the battle to the East. But he is only...