Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion, Archibald Robertson Graustein, President of the International Paper Co.-I. P. C. -telegraphed the Society that his company would be glad to cooperate in the proposed investigation. The Society decided nothing. ¶ A headliner on the subject of newspaper chains was suave and eloquent General Manager (Colonel) Frank Knox of the Hearst papers, largest U. S. chain. Speaking on the question, "Is the chain a menace to American journalism?" he protested: "No, quite the contrary." Said he: "Group newspapers have been gradually brought about by the demand for more, better and more varied newspaper content, a more complete coverage...
...Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
Married. Henry Latham Doherty, 58. of Manhattan, self-made public utilities and oil tycoon (Cities Service Co., Henry L. Doherty & Co.), "richest U. S. bachelor"; and Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, 40, relict of an International Harvester Co. foreign official; secretly, on Dec. 31 last; in Toronto. Mrs. Eames had nursed Tycoon Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails...
...When Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey died in 1925 his fortune was estimated at $40,000,000. Most of his wealth he assigned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926). Last week the Munsey net estate was appraised by New York State at $19,747,687, of which $17,305,594 went to the Metropolitan. ¶Last week Justice William Harman Black of the New York State Supreme Court refused the motion of defense counsel to dismiss the $500,000 damage suit brought against Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, by Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City...
...utility pope of Chicago. His operations centred at first in Maine, where securities of his Central Maine Power & Light have become popular legal tender and his henchmen, Walter S. Wyman and Guy P. Gannett, are ruling powers. Mr. Wyman is Water Power. Mr. Gannett, a cousin of Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett of Rochester, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Hartford, Albany, Utica, Elmira, Newburgh-Beacon (N. Y.), Plainfield (N. J.), Ithaca, Olean (N.Y.), Ogdensburg (N. Y.), is Power of the Press. His monthly Comfort reaches 1,226,330 homes. His dailies in Portland (the Press-Herald and Express} and Waterville (the Sentinel...