Word: lishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...
Another newsman heard of the impending death. Robert Worth Bingham, pub lisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, had flown to Tucson from Atlanta a few days before because his long ailing stepdaughter, Alice Hilliard, 25, had an attack of pneumonia there. She was using one of the tents which young Levings needed. When she heard the news she insisted her tent be sent over to St. Mary's. A quick con ference followed between her mother, brother (who had flown with Mr. Bing ham), stepfather, and doctors. The girl could do without the apparatus. But there...
There was a purported interview with Miss Davies' great & good friend Pub lisher Hearst, relating that he, too, had just arrived in Los Angeles, with the words: "I'm just CWAZY about Europe." On the back page were eight more little pictures of Miss Davies, and a lengthy colyum of studio gossip by "Prunella Parsnips," parodying Louella Parsons, Hearst reporter of Hollywood chit-chat...
...pool. Startled was he when his rod bent double as a bigger, a monster fish struck the other fly, knocking the first trout free. Alarmed was he when suddenly a big, mossy-horned buck deer came out of the brush, walked into the river and started shoving Pub lisher Bonfils into deep water. Delighted was he when his host shooed the deer away and he climbed out of the stream 45 min. later with a 7¼ Ib. trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover...