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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Medill Patterson drew from New York's tabloid Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett Co. Inc., $60,000; General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press, $63,947. President Marion (Davies) Douras of Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions Inc. (cinema distributors) was paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: ABOVE AVERAGE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson were trailing three to one at the opening of the eighth. Two were gone when Bob Gannett lashed out a double, Grondahl walked, and Lupien beat out a bunt. With the bases loaded, Tully and Soltz were passed, forcing in the tying runs...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: CRIMSON DEFEATS LION NINE 11 TO 3 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Strongest on the offense, the 1939 team is favored to carry off Eastern League batting honors for the second year in a row. Crimson sluggers Lupien, Johns, Grondahl, Soltz, and Gannett all hung up good averages on the trip...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...Captain Art Johns, who hit for 362 in League contesis last season to rank sixth in the circuit. Reine Grondahl, the team's "money hitter," led the League in runs batted in last year. Jojo Soltz is almost as vicious a hitter as Lupien. Batting left handed, Gannett is a good "waiter." He had tough luck on the trip, connecting safely only four times out of 17 trips to the plate. Two or three times, safe landing of his smoky liners might have meant the ball game to Harvard, but each time they were hit directly at the fielders...

Author: By Thedore R. Barneit, | Title: Batting Power Key to Nine's League Prospects This Year | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Year ago Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the U. S. Government was beaten in a bitter legislative battle amid cries of "Dictator!" from Father Coughlin and Publisher Frank Gannett. Last week another reorganization bill passed-with no national hullabaloo, but after a right smart fight in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Reorganization Reorganized | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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