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...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...
...Bayard Cutting, Mrs. Bayard James, and Marchesa Origo, for the "Bronson Cutting Harvard National Scholarships" in memory of Bronson Cutting '10, primarily for students from New Mexico or under certain conditions from Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma 125,000.00 John T. Davis '89 25,000.00 John Draper Gannett '37, Robert Tileston Gannett '15, Robert Tileston Gannett, 2d '39, Thomas Brattle Gannett '35, for the "Thomas Brattle Gannett Memorial Scholarship" in memory of Thomas Brattle Gannett '97 25,000.00 George Peabody Gardner '77, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, George Peabody Gardner, III '39, for a Harvard National Scholarship "to bear the name...