Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Boston, Wednesday of the first week of squad practice found numerous new prospects in action. Chief among them are Body Gannett, Jack Cunningham, and Jojo Soltz, outfielders of last year's Freshmen. With Mal McTernen, and Jim Sullivan, veterans, these men bring Mitchell's garden roster to its approximate full strength. Gannett's status remains a team question mark for a time. Fast afield and second ranking hitter on the undefeated 1939 Yardlings, the Milton boy was disabled with a bad leg during the first half of this year. If, as he expects, his leg holds up, observers believe...
...Eagle is as much a Brooklyn landmark as the Bridge. Founded in 1841 as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Kings County Democrat, the paper was controlled by successive generations of the family of Isaac Van Anden until it was acquired in 1929 by Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. In its great days from 1892 till 1930, the Eagle's eyrie was a Renaissance castle on noisy Washington Street in Brooklyn's "downtown" section, a half mile from Henry Ward Beecher's old Plymouth Church on Orange Street and the "Heights," where some of the borough...
...late Carson C. Peck, vice president and treasurer of F. W. Woolworth Co. Mr. Peck died in 1915 and his son, Fremont Carson Peck, took over in 1922. Ten years later, young Publisher Peck bought the Standard Union from Chain-Publisher Paul Block. Same year Chain-Publisher Gannett relinquished control of the Eagle to a corporation headed by Millard Preston Goodfellow, an old Brooklyn...
...Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., has permitted each of his 18 papers to main tain its traditional partisanship. All but one are more or less Republican...
Riding to Worcester, Mass., Alf Landon had the company of New Hampshire's H. Styles Bridges (see p. 15), of Massachusetts Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (see p. 14), of Publisher Frank E. Gannett. Another publisher, Paul Block, had asked and received permission to join the nominee. As the special paused in Worcester's railroad yards, Alf Landon appeared on the rear platform of his private car. Meanwhile, up in front trainmen had uncoupled the special's engine and baggage car. Publisher Block, who is a great & good friend of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, had unexpectedly arrived...