Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., spunky publisher of 16 newspapers,* cocked, last week, an eye to the future. In Manhattan, he told the Advertising Club about two machines...
...Gannett, too, spent some of his early years in newspaper work in Elmira. In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, combining it with the Star. He fought shy of the larger cities for years as he expanded his holdings, buying up papers two at a time, consolidating them on firm financial bases. He went to Ithaca, to Rochester, to Utica; to Plainfield, N. J.; and back to New York with purchases in Newburgh, Olean and Ogdensburg...
Last month he interrupted his series of spectacular purchases and appeared before the country in a new role. A machine which may be of epochal importance in newspaper publishing, by which type can be set by telegraph, was built, tested, proved successful. Gannett was the man who had backed the invention...
...Brooklyn Eagle Gannett comes into possession not only of a printing plant but also of a fine tradition. Although the circulation of the Eagle is relatively small -around 80,000- and does not conflict with that of the Manhattan dailies, its editorial influence has been considerable for many decades. Walt Whitman wrote editorials for the Eagle in 1846-48; among its editors and critics have been many great names. Most recently, Dr. St. Clair McKelway, editor-in-chief up to his death in 1915, brought distinction to the paper...
When Paul Block bought the Standard-Union he gave a theatre party, bought out the house for a performance of George White's Scandals, invited everyone from Fisticuffer Dempsey to Aviatrix Earhart. Last week Publicist Gannett gave no party on Broadway to celebrate his purchase of the dignified Eagle...