Word: dickeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the late, public-spirited Walter Simpson Dickey of Kansas City, rich manufacturer of brick & clay products, bought the Kansas City Journal and Post ten years ago, he announced that he had sold all his stockholdings in public service corporations and quasi-public enterprises. His reason: no newspaper publisher could effectively serve his Public if he has any share in the "Interests." Had Publisher Dickey been alive last week, readers of the Journal-Post might not have seen what they did: an announcement that Henry Latham Doherty, crafty, bearded president of far-flung Cities Service Co. had bought a half...
...elder Dickey ran the morning Journal from 32,647 circulation to 155.463 in the first 18 months of his ownership. In 1928 he combined it with the evening Post, which he had bought from notorious Publishers Bonfils & Tammen of the Denver Post. He operated the properties as a personal enterprise until 1929 when, weary of the drudgery, he formed a trusteeship consisting of himself...
...Dickey, who before he married and became a professional explorer, practiced medicine for 25 years in northern and western South America, named the Parima peak from which he saw long-sought El Dorado, the George G. Heye Mountain. That was to honor the important backer of this, his fifth expedition up the Orinoco -George Gustav Heye, 56, retired Manhattan electrical engineer and banker who for 35 years has been assembling relics of North, Central & South American Indians and who, with Archer Milton Huntington,† in 1922 created the great Heye Foundation & Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan...
Last week Dr. Dickey was at an unmapped place on the Orinoco called Tama Tama. Like all enterprising explorers he had made a reportorial connection with the New York Times. To that paper he wirelessed first news of his discovery. Included in the despatch was mention of a 40-ft. waterfall over which his disabled outboard-motored canoe almost drifted and which he has "named, for a salient figure in the newspaper and exploration world, Russell Owen Cascade...
...Dickey was as cryptic as were the old Caribs concerning El Dorado. He wirelessed: "We . . . have made a discovery of such startling geographical importance that I must be sure of it beyond the slightest risk of error before I dare have it put in print." He said nothing about finding any gold...