Word: fremont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Times was acquired by the late Carson C. Peck, vice president and treasurer of F. W. Woolworth Co. Mr. Peck died in 1915 and his son, Fremont Carson Peck, took over in 1922. Ten years later, young Publisher Peck bought the Standard Union from Chain-Publisher Paul Block. Same year Chain-Publisher Gannett relinquished control of the Eagle to a corporation headed by Millard Preston Goodfellow, an old Brooklyn...
...Vibiana's in the grubbiest part of Los Angeles. Before his elevation last week he had planned a magnificent new Cathedral in the swanky Wilshire section, but he changed his mind, decided to use the new Cathedral money for a seminary. His private quarters are on fashionable Fremont Place, where his sister keeps his house and a dog keeps him company...
...League gives its official approval to the true biography of Mr. William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans...
...especially grateful for your appreciation of Fremont Older who always read TIME and enjoyed...
...months ago, first of this new biographical crop to present itself was William Randolph Hearst: American,* by Mrs. Fremont Older, wife of the late great San Francisco editor, who helped her prepare the book, died before it was completed. In 581 pages Mrs. Older pours out her wholehearted admiration for her husband's old boss. In a different vein, fortnight ago appeared Imperial Hearst: A Social Biography,† by Ferdinand Lundberg, onetime Chicago reporter and New York Herald Tribune Wall Street man. A charter member of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' union with which Mr. Hearst is perpetually...