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...vigorous believer in Anglo-American hands-across-the-sea is British Press Titan Lord Beaverbrook (born plain William Maxwell Aitken). Last week, when U. S. Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett arrived in London, Lord Beaverbrook's friendly hand had a distinctly ham quality about it. Speaking through his Daily Express and Evening Standard his lordship found Mr. Gannett eminently qualified to be President, handed him the nomination. "In two years, Gannett may be the President of the U. S.," warned the Standard...
Cherubic, 61-year-old Nominee Gannett, who publishes a string of 19 wholesome family newspapers, mostly in upstate New York, promptly accepted: ''No American could refuse the nomination for the Presidency." He even offered a platform: "I should reverse the Roosevelt policy and compose a constructive program to restore prosperity, bring employment to the idle, lessen the burden of taxation and encourage business and the growth of abundancy...
When William Randolph Hearst discontinued his unprofitable Rochester Journal last year, 400 men and women lost their jobs on 24 hours' notice, the Rochester newspaper field was left to the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the evening Times-Union, both owned by restless Roosevelt-Baiter Frank Ernest Gannett. The homeless Hearstlings decided that they and Rochester could use an independent daily. This week, after a year's hunt for financial backers, the first issue of the Rochester Evening News, edited by Roosevelt-Backer David Edwin Kessler, appeared on the streets...
Reshuffling of the University architectual set-up north of Kirkland Street continues as the new Hemenway gymnasium nears completion. Built on the former site of Gannett House of the Law School, the new building will replace the old Hemenway gymnasium, which was demolished to provide for the Littauer Center of Public Administration will probably be completed by October...
...base hit--Brucato. Three-base hit--Joubert. Home run--Gannett. Stolen bases--Duplessis 2, Plurek. Double play--Shean to Johns to Lupien. Left on bases--Harvard 5, Holy Cross 12. First base on balls--off Klarnick 2, off Ingalls 4, off Mahoney 4, off Healey, Hits--off Ingalls 9 in 3 2/3 innings, off Mahoney 3 in 4 1/2 innings. Struck out--by Klarnick...