Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
...last fortnight (TIME, June 24), they acquired the third and weakest newspaper in that community. To them that was no cause for discouragement. Their money-making Des Moines Register & Tribune, which today blankets Iowa like that State's own rich, black topsoil, was also third and weakest when Gardner Cowles Sr. picked it up 32 years...
...Register gobbled the newly established Tribune. In 1924 Publisher Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard) visited Des Moines. asked Gardner Cowles ("G. C.") to call at his hotel. In an hour "G. C." had bought the Scripps-Howard News for $150,000. Three years later the Capital, owned by the late Senator Lafayette Young, gave up the battle and the Register & Tribune remained the only newspaper in Des Moines...
...organ of the Non-Partisan League, the Star was at first rambunctiously radical, has lately grown respectable and New Dealish. It went through a receivership from which it was extricated by the late Albert Burnett Frizzell. Last week the Frizzell estate sold controlling interest in the Star to Gardner Cowles & sons, publishers of the fatly prosperous Des Moines Register & Tribune. Reputed price...
...soon as all the classes were gathered, Mr. Gardner spoke a few words of introduction, saying in part that the class of 1910 was still able "to totter down to the stadium." He toasted the Class of 1935 with a few well chosen words, declaring "the world is your oyster. Eat it alive, it tastes better that way. The blessings of 1910 are with...