Word: greeleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridgeport home of Phineas T. Barnum a special room was always reserved for him, know as "Mr. Greeley...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...
...columns of our leading Penny Papers, will be carefully excluded from this, and no exertion spared to render it worthy of the virtuous and refined, and a welcome visitant at the family fireside." Horace was editor; one Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles A. Dana (famed for the Sun), Whitelaw Reid (father of Ogden Reid, present Herald Tribune owner), John Hay (Lincoln's secretary and Ambassador to England), William Winter (famed critic...
...They marry. He leaves for the Civil War. Says Lydia,: "I think des- tiny is just another word for life. ..." The author has handled the personages of 1855-60 with a casual ease that his own creations lack. In addition to Messrs. Vanderbilt and Walker, it is Journalist Horace Greeley, Shipowner "Liveoak George" Law, and Abraham Lincoln who pop up at old moments to make the book plunging, rawboned historical fiction...
...William R. Greeley and Mr. Arthur Comey, both Boston architects acted as fudges of the models which were submitted...