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...Koenigsberg to Denver...
Glad indeed was Moses Koenigsberg. half of whose 51 years have been spent as a Hearst executive, to enter such a promised land. He became, last week, the paper's general manager. Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils?who bought the Post for his partner Tammen and himself in 1893 with some of the money he made out of operating the Little Louisiana Lottery (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928)?had specially made the new job for his longtime friend Koenigsberg...
...years ago Moses Koenigsberg was chief of all Hearst feature and news services, world's widest read.* In 1927 he went to Geneva as one of five U.S. delegates to the League of Nations' first international conference of press experts. There he distinguished himself by helping to defeat a proposal to make news government property. Delegate Koenigsberg protested that such legislation might deliver the world's press into the hands of wilful statesmen. For his crusading, France made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The pleasure which Delegate Koenigsberg might have experienced from the decoration was not shared...
...risen so high, times became comparatively lean. He organized Kay Features, a syndicate which has not proven eminently successful. The rumor that he might help form and head a new chain of newspapers has not, to date, materialized. But, besides his medal, Newsman Koenigsberg can point pridefully to a journalistic career begun at the age of 13, when, as a result of winning a Chamber of Commerce essay prize, he began reporting on the San Antonio Times...
Rotund, big-voiced, bad-land-bred, city-smoothed, General Manager Koenigsberg will not seem out of place around the office of the Denver Post, where once trod fleshy, practical-joking, hard-boiled H. H. Tammen. Nor will a Hearstman be any novelty to Publisher Bonfils, who imported a setting of them in the Yellow '905 when he first began to make his paper a hissing to indiscreet Denver citizens...