Word: kohlsaat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Kohlsaat Wells '33, of Glance, Illinois, was elected captain of the Harvard Freshman football team at a meeting of the 1933 squad Monday. He prepared for Harvard at the North Shore Country Day School...
Died. Herman H. Kohlsaat, 71, famed editor; at the home of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, where he was visiting, in Washington, D. C., following a stroke of paralysis. The friend of five Presidents-McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, four of whom are now dead-he started his career as a caterer, later selling the chain of restaurants, which he controlled, and entering the newspaper field in Chicago. He owned and edited at different times the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Times-Herald, Record-Herald, Evening Post. His services to the Republican cause brought him into contact with many a famed man, made...
...leaving college, Mr. Mason became a wholesale greengrocer. But not for long. In a year he got a job on the Chicago Herald, then the property of H. H. Kohlsaat. He shifted to the Chicago Tribune and then, in 1905, to the Chicago Evening Post. From 1905 to 1922 he shinnied up the Post to the altitude of Managing Editor. In March, 1922, The New York Tribune enticed him to Manhattan. There he conducts himself as a humane and kindly editor but one-in his own phrase-"not afraid of using small town stunts on a metropolitan newspaper, provided they...
Herman H. Kohlsaat, author of From McKinley to Harding: " I spent my 70th birthday at the Biltmore, Manhattan, receiving the congratulations of old friends. The New York Times gave a luncheon in my honor and presented me with a birthday cake with 70 candles...
...Kohlsaat has been for thirty years a journalist, publisher, politician-behind-scenes. He has been one of the more engaging if less dynamic personalities in Chicago's rush toward eminence. Now he has written a book.* Charles Scribner, patrician publisher, is selling it by the thousands, although George Horace Lorimer had already printed most of it in the Saturday Evening Post...