Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Herschell V. Jones, 66, onetime (at 12) printer's "devil" on the Jefferson (N. Y.) Courier, owner and publisher since 1908 of the Minneapolis Journal, a director of the Associated Press, accurate forecaster of wheat crops and famed collector of books, etchings, pictures; of heart disease; in Minneapolis...
...meeting was without incident?the same directors having been unanimously reelected, except that E. D. Stair was elected a director in the place of Alvin W. Krech, deceased...
Edward Douglas Stair, 69, is director of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., the Detroit Trust Co., the First National Bank of Detroit, amusement enterprises. He is president and principal owner of the Detroit Free Press. The Free Press is the smallest of Detroit's three newspapers (the News and Times are the others). Nonetheless its daily circulation is 229,294; its Sunday 276,016. It makes Mr. Stair an important force in Detroit and its environs...
...Stair is unique as an important publisher. Other publishers of his rank have sedulously avoided open relations with other business enterprises. William Randolph Hearst, for all his wealth, is publicly a director only in Cosmopolitan Finance Co., and the International Film Service Co. His Arthur Brisbane, who is rich in real estate and touts great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs...
...Detroit Journal (1901) and the Detroit Free Press (1906). Said he once of journalism: "There is no work so trying or so satisfying." It was also contactual for him, and his theatrical money helped him make use of his contacts. He, in an unobtrusive way became a director of the Ann Arbor Railroad...