Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoosier birth (1867) gave Graham Phillips a natural bent toward politics and writing. College friendship with an ambitious young backwoodsman named Albert J. Beveridge settled him down, helped him choose the goal which he pursued with solemn fixity to his death. The years of reporting and editorial writing under the late great Editors Charles A. Dana and Joseph Pulitzer were a time of learning weapons, storing mental ammunition. As a friend afterward wrote, "He believed that more people would read intelligently and heed the warnings and lessons which he felt inspired to offer through the medium of novels, than they...
...chief executive and became chairman. For some time it has been rumored that he and other big White holders wanted to sell out in order to give more time to their own businesses. But the reports have always coupled White to its biggest competitor, Mack. And despite the close friendship of Alabama-born Albert Russel Erskine of Studebaker and Atlanta's Woodruff, news of their telephoning and meeting came as a complete surprise...
...outstrip each other in expensive promotion stunts until in 1928 lively little Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Denver, made peace with Publisher Bonfils. Scripps-Howard withdrew its evening paper, Bonfils his morning one. There was amiable talk about how the remaining sheets would "deserve the respect and friendship of each other." Last week Publisher Bonfils sued Publishers Howard & Scripps and Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic...
Puffs. A 30-year friendship links Mr. McAdoo and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. When Mr. Hearst picked Speaker Garner as a presidential winner last spring, Mr. McAdoo was his first and only important recruit. Mr. Hearst was as much responsible for the shift play at Chicago resulting in the Roosevelt nomination as Mr. McAdoo. They both feared and hated internationally-minded Newton Diehl Baker as a deadlock candidate. Californians were not surprised this month when five Hearstpapers (Los Angeles Examiner and Herald & Express, San Francisco Examiner and Call and Oakland Post-Enquirer) began puffing the McAdoo Senatorial candidacy...
...Evans, died in 1919. In 1928 he secretly married Kathryn Alberta Riley, 37, who had nursed him back to health. In 1920 Lackaye paid a visit to John J. McGraw, during which it was claimed he insulted Baseballer McGraw. Lockaye said that McGraw put out his right hand in friendship, then struck him on the jaw with his left. After the fracas Lackaye nursed a broken ankle, had McGraw suspended from the Lambs' Club...