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Therefore it must have an extremely able publisher. Who? One name appeared last week to be the key to the situation: Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., Unitarian, Dry. Most famed of 17 Dry Gannett dailies (fourth largest group in the U. S.) is the Brooklyn Eagle. Probably the new paper would be published in the Eagle's plant but in no other way would the Eagle be affected...
...bronchitis); ex-Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi of Japan (second operation to relieve condition caused by shooting?TIME, Nov. 24); Mrs. Ida Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis...
From Florida, Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett also proposed to top the Scripps-Howard bid, and to keep the World papers alive. And Publisher William Griffin of the New York Enquirer (a paper so obscure that few are aware it has changed from Sunday to daily) wanted to bid. Surrogate Foley made it clear he would conduct no auction, could only decide whether sale was legal and justified. Obviously touched, he listened solemnly to the plea of the employes, advised them to make their best offer to the Pulitzers directly, reserved decision again, until that night...
...years ago the striking printers of Hearst's Albany Times-Union and Frank Ernest Gannett's Knickerbocker Press began publishing their own daily newspaper, the Albany Citizen. But when they tried to purchase wire services and features they met with outright refusals or demands for prices far out of their reach. The venture failed; but the Albany Typographical Union vowed vengeance. Fortnight ago it had introduced into the New York Legislature a bill to place all press services, news bureaus and feature services under jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission as public utilities...
...such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Review...