Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...irate business men, threatening to withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...
...newspapers of round, beaming Frank Ernest Gannett rarely make exciting news. Now & then the public hears that Publisher Gannett has bought another small daily like the Saratoga Springs (N. Y.) Saratogian or the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News, as he did last year; or the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, as he did last week. But the sum of Frank Gannett's unspectacular doings makes a story that many a publisher would like to be able to tell about himself...
With last week's purchase, the Gannett chain numbered 19 newspapers, its peak to date. This made it numerically the third largest group in the land, outranked only by Hearst's 27 dailies, Scripps-Howard's 24.* Practically all in the group are established, prosperous properties, with an average age of 75 years. Last year Gannett Co. earned $1,011,000, more than in any year since the 1929 top of $1,237,000. Gannett preferred stock, offered to the public four years ago at $100 a share, hit a low of $58 in 1933, was quoted...
...circulation, however, the Gannett papers, with their 465,000 readers, are not to be compared with Hearst's 5,564,000, or Scripps-Howard...
HARVARD COLUMBIA Prouty or Fletcher, c.f. c., Brominski Adzigian, 3b. 1b., Petterson Bilodeau or Prouty, 1b. 3b., Nash Owen, r.f. l.f., Mareski Sullivan, l.f. s.s., Ciampa Maguire, c. c.f., Urie Woodruff, s.s. r.f., King Hayes, 2b. 2b., Maxim Braggiotti or Bilodeau, p. p., DeBettencourt, Gannett, or Morgan...