Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After each had had his say, the most dramatic contribution to the controversy was yet to come. Owner of four newspapers into which I. P. & P. had bought its way is able Frank Ernest Gannett, publisher of 17 chainpapers,−father of-the Teletypesetter (TIME, Jan. 14). When Mr. Graustein completed his testimony before the Commission, Mr. Gannett called it "in the main, admirable," explained more fully his deals with I. P. & P. Last week, with a sudden and theatrical gesture, he canceled the deals, freed his papers from the menace of the "Power Trust." He wrote Mr. Graustein...
...Last week Publisher Gannett bought the 17th, the Malone (N. Y.) Telegram...
...midwest went a little man used to doing things in a big way - Samuel Insull, public 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...
...teletypesetter, developed by Publisher Gannett and already demonstrated successfully, is expected to be in use in many a metropolitan daily's plant within a year. This machine, by means of perforated tape, sets type by telegraph...
...There is another great revolution," said Mr. Gannett, "coming in the printing industry, although it may be five or ten years before it is perfected. That is the use of photo-composing instead of metal composing. Instead of producing a column of metal type, we will have a machine which produces a strip of film. The offset process will have to be used instead of the present relief process. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the concerns interested in abolishing the present costly and wasteful system of printing...