Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Paul Block bought the Los An-geles Evening Express (reputedly for $2.800.000) ten months ago, the Los An-geles Times set up a sustained cry that William Randolph Hearst was the real purchaser. That big Publisher Hearst and small Publisher Block are warm friends, mutual admirers, is no secret. Publisher Block, more an adman than a newsman, has the sole right to solicit national advertising for Hearst's New York American. Many an observer besides the Los Angeles Times has believed that their business relationship was much closer, took as evidence the fact that they had traded papers...
Last week, after operating the Express for ten months at a loss, Publisher Block announced its sale to Hearst, and its merger with the latter's Evening Herald. "Because of the present business conditions." he said, "I find it necessary to give all my attention to my newspaper interests in the East...
With 226,419 circulation the Herald already dominated the Los Angeles evening field. After eliminating the Express (127,990) its only remaining competitor is the Scripps-Canfield Record (63,554). By the purchase, Hearst gets the only evening A. P. membership in Los Angeles...
...after-dinner speaker, president of Mark Cross Co. (TIME, Dec. 7); an estate valued at "over $10,000"; to his wife and children, save for a bequest of $20,000 to "my personal friend and employee," Lillian Evelyn Ramsgate, vice president and director of Mark Cross Co., with the "express direction" that she be appointed president...
...When Mr. Bennett arrived," said the Daily Express, "the whole situation regarding economic unity for the Empire seemed nebulous. Now the Empire outlook is transformed, for the quota is definitely the beginning of an Empire fiscal union...