Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austin Hall in the Law School was also provided with additional exits for ll assembly rooms, making it conform to regulations, while Gannett House, also of the Law School, was turned around to make room for the new Littauer School buildings and the new squash court...
...order to make room for the new gymnasium, Gannett House, a frame building dating from about 1830 and now used by the Harvard Law School, will be moved within the next month a short distance from its present location at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holmes Place. It will stand on what is now the western branch of Holmes Place and will face to the east...
Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Harry Bitner of the Hearstpapers, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett (see col. 2), the Chicago Tribune's McCormick, the publisher of the Chicago Drover's Journal and 558 other publishing executives great and small from up & down the land converged in Chicago last week for a one-day emergency convention. It would be, they had been told, a "most important meeting" (TIME, June 28). At the rallying cry of Nashville's young James Geddes ("Jimmy...
...deal was with Frank Ernest Gannett, 60, owner of a chain of 19 ultra-respectable newspapers mostly in New York State. By its terms Hearst cleared out of Rochester, where he had been losing $125,000 a year and where he once gave away automobiles to lure circulation, leaving Gannett a virtual monopoly in that city with his evening Times-Union and morning and Sunday Democrat & Chronicle. Hearst's Rochester employes, out of jobs, were attempting at week's end to raise money to start a new paper...
Rochester was, in 1918, the anchor city of the Gannett chain. Mr. Hearst invaded it in 1922 during his last dream of a personal political career. Albany, on the other hand, had been a Hearst city (evening and Sunday Times-Union) for four years when Publisher Gannett marched there in 1928 to buy the Knickerbocker Press (morning) and News (evening). With Mr. Hearst now out of Rochester, Mr. Gannett was agreeable last week to merging the old (1842) Knickerbocker Press with his News, taking Albany's evening field for the resultant News-Press, and letting Mr. Hearst shift...