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...Purchased the Public Ledger from Mr. Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times, because he wanted it to be owned by Philadelphia capital. Lost $1,000,000 on it and then began to break even...
...plating of austerity because he has vast power. If they only would think of him as WARREN !" In his series of articles on American newspapers, appearing in The Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard last week described the Hearst press. Journals previously treated have included The Kansas City Star, The Public Ledger (Philadelphia), The New York World, the Jewish Forward...
...commonly suspected; but persons who have been about Mrs. Harding through the years know it and take the circumstances into account. It makes Mrs. Harding a factor and a figure in considering the probable course of public affairs."-Edward G. Lowry in a signed editorial in The Philadelphia Public Ledger...
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, prince of publishers, is a tiny old man with white elflike fingers. His Philadelphia Public Ledger consistently supports the President, and it is rumored that he either has been, or soon will be, offered an ambassadorship. Meanwhile the erection of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia is costing him $10,000,000 while he cruises on his yacht in southern waters...
...wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight of his immense achievement behind it. Edison evolved and devised not by his incandescent intellectual brilliancy merely. He labored prodigiously; he "delivered the goods": he has served pre-eminently his race; he is entitled to talk and to be heard. --Philadelphia Ledger...