Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Character, intelligence, and a capacity for hard work are more important than connections for the prospective broker or investment banker, noted Thomas B. Gannett '35, partner of Hornblower and Weeks, Boston investment firm...
...between Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years, Edmund S. Muskie, 42, and his Republican challenger, Willis A. Trafton Jr., a wealthy, 37-year-old attorney from Auburn. Muskie has campaigned hard on a record that some of Maine's most influential newspapers, e.g., the independent Gannett chain, have found good, while Trafton has appealed largely to Maine's Republicanism. By campaigning with U.S. Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Frederick G. Payne at his side. Trafton has appealed for the election of a state administration that will support Dwight Eisenhower in November...
...Sauter-Finnegan dance orchestra will play at a formal dance in the Union, Thomas Gannett '59, chairman of the Freshman Jubilee Committee, announced yesterday. The event will highlight the Jubilee Weekend which has been set for the last weekend in April...
...Gannett said that Herbie Selkin's band will provide the music at the informal dance which will be held in the Union on Friday night, April 27. Before this dance there will be a banquet in the Union for all freshmen and their dates...
Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, disputed the common viewpoint that the press is controlled by liberals. He named the Hearst, Scripps-Howard, and Gannett papers and the Chicago Tribune as examples of powerful right wing newspapers...