Word: munsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey died in 1925 his fortune was estimated at $40,000,000. Most of his wealth he assigned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926). Last week the Munsey net estate was appraised by New York State at $19,747,687, of which $17,305,594 went to the Metropolitan. ¶Last week Justice William Harman Black of the New York State Supreme Court refused the motion of defense counsel to dismiss the $500,000 damage suit brought against Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, by Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City...
When Warren Gamaliel Harding entered the White House in 1921, he brought with him a middleaged, snub-nosed, soft-spoken man named Judson Churchill Welliver. Mr. Welliver was an oldtime Washington correspondent and magazine writer for the late Frank A. Munsey. President Harding put him to work gathering factual material for Presidential addresses, outlining speeches, making ponderous platitudes interesting. So well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much...
...continue his career as a journalist which he did by becoming a reporter on the New York World under famed, dynamic Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope. After a year, he went with his school and college classmate, Henry Robinson Luce, to be a reporter for the late Publisher Munsey's Baltimore News. Thence, having got as far as they could in spare hours with the Newsmagazine Idea, they returned, jobless and with a few hundred dollars, to New York...
...Manhattan. For Chairman of the Board Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. is well known to have advanced some of his privy cash to "Papa Friedrich," years ago, on the sporting security of the Archduke's claim to be non-regnant. The late Frank A. Munsey also took a little flier in what might be called "Papa Friedrich Preferred...
Bennett devoted his later years almost exclusively to the Paris edition of the Herald, which had long been the pet of his most lavish whims. He died in 1918 at Beaulieu, France, aged 77.* The Herald was sold to the late Frank Andrew Munsey and was later merged with the New York Tribune...