Word: herald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were several reasons. For one, his name had been found in the records of James V. Hunt, prime subject (TIME, July 25) of the Senate's five-percent investigation. For another, according to the New York Herald Tribune, he had once tried to smuggle a bottle of precious perfume oils into the country from Europe by saying it was only champagne he was taking to Mrs. Truman...
This was more than the research society could stand. In the name of Dr. Brewer, the "tormentor" of the caption, the society's lawyer filed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Publisher Hearst and the Herald-American, brought suits in Chicago's Federal District Court on behalf of two other members. This week the society announced that two more suits would be filed, boosting the grand total in damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said...
There was a certain irony in Colonel McCormick's entry into Washington; he has always regarded anything east of Gary, Ind. as a foreign country. But there was also a practical and compelling reason for his purchase of the Times-Herald...
Cousin Cissy's estate included not only the Times-Herald but also about a one-eighth interest in the Patterson-McCor-mick family trust, whose 2,000 shares control both the Chicago Tribune and the New York Dotty News. Under Cissy's will, the stock was part of her residual estate, earmarked for such charities as Chicago's Children's Home and Aid Society and the Cradle Society. But it looked as if the stock might have to be sold to help pay inheritance and estate taxes. That posed for Colonel McCormick the horrible prospect...
...same time, Cissy's seven heirs were looking for a chance to convert their legacies into cash. Times-Herald Editor Frank C. Waldrop, together with two co-executors of Cissy's estate, agreed to sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth...