Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusual for a banker, landowner or merchant to be a newspaper publisher by avocation. In Louisville Banker James B. Brown was such a publisher. Political and financial dictator of Kentucky, one-time president of National Bank of Kentucky and BancoKentucky Co., he was seen in the offices of his Herald-Post perhaps once a year. Hence last week, when the paper passed in bankruptcy sale to John B. Gallagher, New York advertising man, for $315,000, it was but a faint anticlimax to Banker Brown's earlier troubles: the collapse of his financial institutions...
When Banker Brown bought the Herald and Post in 1924, merging them the next year, his ambition was to challenge the longtime dominance of the Courier-Journal and Times, published by Judge Robert Worth Bingham. He poured nearly five million dollars into the combined papers, did make a fairly potent political mouthpiece. But he could not shake the traditional supremacy of the Courier-Journal, achieved in the days of the late great Editor "Marse Henry," Watterson. After BancoKentucky's crash, Publisher Brown started an economy regime in the Herald-Post. An inferior paper was the result. Last December...
...affairs political, financial, mercantile. And there he would issue occasional orders for his paper. There, at midnight or later, his business associates would have to go if they wanted to talk with him. After his banks failed it was observed that Publisher Brown went nearly every night to the Herald-Post office. While it lasted, it was all he had left...
...United Press is rated above the Associated Press in "capacity and character." Richard V. Oulahan of the New York Times ("one of the few really distinguished looking men in Washington") is described as supplying his paper with "front" for $25,000 per year. The New York Herald Tribune's Washington news "is inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise...
Mark Sullivan, political pundit for the New York Herald Tribune, learned that a dapper young man had been using his name in New England this summer. He wrote a warning letter to his newspaper. Excerpts...