Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which had acquired it only the year before from Morgan Partner Lamont. For years the Evening Post, for all its fine tradition, had been a money-loser. Briefly after 1923 it looked as if Publisher Curtis might succeed where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor to give the sheet circulation. But still the Post did not fatten and thrive. Lately it has been losing money at the rate...
...most dramatic thing in my career. When I called Mr. Martin he had sitting by his desk a lawyer representing the other evening newspapers in New York City. He had a certified check [for $250,000] from these newspapers on his desk and in his pocket he had a statement of discontinuance.* . . . I almost waited too long...
While Publisher Stern was bustling into New York last week, the Curtis retreat from Manhattan was having significant consequences in Philadelphia. There has always been a polite family feud between John Charles Martin and the other Curtis heirs who run the profitable Satevepost and the Ladies' Home Journal. Last week Publisher Martin resigned from the directorate of Curtis Publishing Co. to devote himself exclusively to the Curtis-Martin Morning and Evening Ledgers and the Inquirer, his three remaining papers...
...Smart David Stern was mistaken if he meant to imply that other Manhattan newspapers had offered $250,000 to kill the Post. What they did, after Publisher Martin decided to kill his own newspaper, was to pool $150,000 for the Post's name and Associated Press membership, provided that Publisher Martin give his 700 newsmen and pressmen two weeks salary to keep them in funds over the holidays...
...Bradford Simmons 206 Alfred Bowditch Hallowell 174 John Moore Morse 158 Francis Howes Gleason 139 Carl Albert Pescosolido 138 Paul deBarsy deGive 136 Richard Palmer Waters Jr. 130 John Joseph Hayes, Jr. 78 FOR TREASURER *Guy Scull Hayes 113 *Elected Tom Lilley 96 Gordon Chase Streeter 74 Howard Martin Lawn 69 Melville French Heath, Jr. 62 Hobart Ames Spalding 40 FOR IVY ORATOR *John Bridgers White 150 Sidney Carroll 143 Robert Crawford Phillips 79 Edward Malcolm Barnet 71 FOR ORATOR *Asa Emory Phillips, Jr. 198 George Gore 191 Harold Sol Saxe 58 FOR ODIST *John Cotton Walcott 332 Daniel Joseph...