Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...come voluntarily because they wanted to spend their first two college years under Dr. Meiklejohn and as a part of his experiment. They had heard of him as a liberal who had been forced to resign from the presidency of Amherst College (in 1923). They knew that President Glenn Frank had brought him to Wisconsin because he was also a distinguished philosopher...
Such a community, self-respecting and of a serious turn of mind, heard last week that a local boy had made good in his own home town. For Frank Ernest Gannett, long a power in Rochester by virtue of his evening paper, the Times-Union, rose to the ranks of the city's greatest, stood close beside Cameraman Eastman, when he went last week to his bankers and borrowed most or all of $3,500,000 to buy the Democrat and Chronicle...
...Gannett declared the purchase of Rochester's only morning paper was not just another business deal. From Gannett Hill, the highest point of land in Central New York, it is just possible on clear days to see the spires of Rochester's churches. Frank Gannett's father, Joseph, cleared this hill, built the house where Frank was born, 51 years ago. As a boy of twelve he peddled the Democrat and Chronicle. He has never forgotten his "early attachment...
...Thus Frank Gannett made good in Rochester, perhaps the most satisfactory achievement of his life. He paid more for the Hartford Times (TIME, Feb. 6), but he cares more for the Democrat and Chronicle. He is known from coast to coast, but cleanly, comfortable Rochester held the particular puddle in which he wanted...