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...when a starched and proper young Irishman named John Francis Fitzpatrick arrived in Salt Lake City, capital of predominantly Mormon Utah, he found a mud-flinging contest going on between Salt Lake City's morning paper, the Gentile* Tribune, and the Saints' own evening Deseret News...
Declaration of War. The young Roman Catholic Irishman was destined to play a significant role in Utah journalism. From railroad clerking, John Francis Fitzpatrick went on to be secretary to another Irishman, Thomas Kearns, former U.S. Senator from Utah (1901-05) and millionaire silver miner. With a share of his fortune, Kearns bought the Tribune in 1913. After his death, Kearns's heirs named John Francis Fitzpatrick publisher of the Tribune...
...your article on jazz: What's this jazz about the "unlikeliness of an Irishman at a temperance meeting...
...Some 18 years later (Dec. 2, 1957), Jack made his bow as the leading campaigner for the 1960 presidential nomination; he appeared again on Nov. 24, 1958, front and center among five other Democratic hopefuls. Appropriately, this week's story on the Kennedy clan was written by another Irishman (and father of seven), Associate Editor Richard Oulahan...
Among all the speculators in stocks, no one, day in and day out, takes greater risks than John Aloysius Coleman, 58, a trim, broad-shouldered Irishman with the saturnine look and sad eyes of a bloodhound. He is a stock specialist and is required by the New York Stock Exchange to "make the market" and help stabilize prices in the 52 stocks he specializes in. This means that he must often buy a stock, whatever its price and prospects, when the majority of investors want to sell, thus keep it from dropping too much. He must also sell stocks when...