Word: garr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garr Fallson headed west for Prairie City and his career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want...
...Garr had his ups & downs, of course. Once or twice he was outbluffed. A race-track owner who had threatened to shoot Garr if his name was ever mentioned in the Chronicle started to act on his threat, camped in an office across the street with a rifle in his lap, waiting for Garr to appear. Warned in time, Garr sneaked in a back entrance. Day after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher...
...Garr himself lived to a prematurely ripe age, died the owner of $40,000,000, the biggest newspaper west of the Mississippi, a reputation so sinister that it made men hold their noses but pretend they were simply using their handkerchiefs...