Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Maine. He reported that the funds expended in the campaign were the result of Insull profits in Texas, were not profits taken from Maine consumers. On the same side were former Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1921-25) and numerous newspapers including the papers published by Guy Patterson Gannett.* Together they bombarded Maine with advice to permit power export...
...confused with his able distant cousin, Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, Brooklyn, Syracuse...
Displeased at the Commission's order, at the company's formation, was many a news organ. Representatives of the Gannett chainpapers attended the organization meetings at Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, later declined to participate. "Such a company will not give the service we want," said one of them. Moved to court action was the Hearst-owned Universal Service Wireless, Inc., organized last year following the Commission's first allocation order. Last week it filed notice of appeal in Washington's Court of Appeals asking that the Commission be enjoined from allocating the wavelengths to the new corporation, that...
...three leading newspaper chains are: Hearst papers (28), Scripps-Howard papers (24), Gannett papers (17). Last week the Scripps-Howard chain took on a link, bought the Buffalo Evening Times and Sunday Times for some six million dollars...
...Federal Trade Commission also planned to call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...