Word: hustler
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...legend of tall, cadaverous, unsociable Moe Annenberg is that he came from Germany and started in as a circulation hustler for Hearst's Chicago papers. From Chicago he moved to Milwaukee and started a newspaper distributing agency which he still owns. Arthur Brisbane went to Milwaukee, bought the Milwaukee Sentinel (later taken over by Hearst who in 1929 sold it to Paul Block) and made Moe editor & publisher. Afterwards Hearst took Moe to New York. There in 1921 Moe got into partnership with a pair of gentlemen named Joe Bannon and Hugh Murray. Aware of the huge public that...
...addition to his Horatio Alger traits, there was only the circumstantial evidence of his colossal success in dollars. From the time he began his first important publishing venture, The Tribune & Farmer, in Philadelphia in 1879 (this followed a series of smaller-scale efforts, jobs as advertising solicitor, circulation hustler, etc. etc.) to the day when he could address an audience of 8,000,000, Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought...
...tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part of the increase, but it is understood that he will refund the balance in payment...
...Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...round off his diplomatic debut, Hustler Dawes added this final fillip: "I consider that the time of old-fashioned diplomats is over and that people like myself, who are not careerists, have an opportunity for settling the affairs of the world...