Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Gannett, up-state New York publisher, founded the C.C.G. to arouse public opinion against the New Deal. Gannett chose Dr. Edward Rumely as Executive Secretary of the group. (Rumely was convicted of failing to report German money he received to carry on propaganda activities in this country.) Third man on the team is John T. Flynn, Chairman of New York's America First Committee in 1941, and author of a book called "The Road Ahead." Subtitled "America's Creeping Revolution," this book is a vitriolic attack on "America's Fabians"--i.e. F.D.R., the Democratic Party, organized labor...
...Cheers. Portlanders have been wondering about Reed for a long time. It was founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...
...August 1949, the report continued, Publisher Frank Gannett and the Bank of Manhattan had kindly lent Hanley the $28,500 which he needed to pay up the debt in full. But when he knuckled down to Dewey, his patron and another anti-Dewey Republican, Congressman W. Kingsland Macy, were not pleased. It was then that Hanley wrote Macy The Letter, a lugubrious note of apology and explanation...
...much is known about the history and organization of American's Future. Frank Gannett, an upstate New York publisher, is one of the group's trustees and is reportedly its chief backer. But the organization will not tell who are its contributors...
This year, however, the Law School recognized the need for the Defenders. It granted them a $500 budget to meet expenses in their work and gave them quarters in Gannett House...