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Favorite observation of saturnine old newspapermen, who remember how rich Groceryman Frank Andrew Munsey bought 17 important newspapers between 1912 and 1924 and killed half of them through his thumping ignorance of practical newspapering, is that nothing has been right in the profession since "the grocers took over the newspaper business." Last week the grocers got a better grip on the magazine business...
...some two years after its founding in May 1933, the sheet was a weekly give-away appearing on Thursday afternoons. It was started by a 35-year-old groceryman named Roy McDonald who built up a chain of 50 stores in Chattanooga, wanted to advertise them but thought space rates in the Times and News too high. For some reason, his little Free Press caught the public fancy. Last year it got a real boost when the Times fired Managing Editor William G. Foster to take on Pulitzer Prize Winner Julian Harris (TIME, Aug. 19, 1935). Hired by the Free...
...Knoxville Journal, which three months ago got out of receivership with the help of Republican money. According to Publisher McDonald, he owes only $60,000 for the modern presses and equipment he has installed. Delivery of the enlarged Free Press requires no new outlay of funds. Publisher McDonald uses Groceryman McDonald's trucks...
Last week after another five years Groceryman Sherrill again changed jobs. He was picked to head a big new trade association, the American Retail Federation, representing the "unified voice of the entire field of distribution on national legislation and economic problems...
...terms expired. "Governor" Aldrich said he would take charge of the State in a few days. L. D. Smith, another jobless one, got himself sworn in as lieutenant governor. E. H. Reed, Shreveport grocer, did the same, said he would attach himself to "Governor Aldrich's staff." Sang the groceryman: "Every governor needs a lieutenant governor, and that's why you need...