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...Dewart had come, on behalf of the late publisher Frank A. Munsey, to buy the News for $340,000. At Widow Wood's insistence he had brought currency, new $1,000 bills. She loved to hoard and fondle large currency. (Her husband used to give her half of his winnings from the gaming tables of the Manhattan Club and Saratoga, as much as $75,000 at a time.) One by one, Mr. Dewart handed each bill to Mrs. Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma...
...born 33 years ago on a Texas ranch. He went to the University of Texas, later worked for a while on the Dallas News. In 1919 he broke into New York on the old Herald. He was never an outstanding reporter. He stayed with the Herald when Frank Andrew Munsey merged it with the now defunct morning Sim and when Ogden Reid merged it with his Tribune...
...entering politics, Mrs. Reid's reputation as a great lady of U. S. diplomacy and public affairs had scarcely begun. She took over her husband's paper, watched it jealously. Tribune men give her full credit for the acquisition of James Gordon Bennett's and Frank Munsey's Herald. She refinanced the unprofitable Paris Herald, made it pay. She helped found a sanatorium and nurses' training school at Saranac Lake, N. Y., a hospital (St. Luke's) in San Francisco, another at San Mateo, Calif, in memory of her parents. She gave the central...
Among the Sun personnel are many stockholders (principally President William Thompson Dewart) who bought the paper from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which it was bequeathed by the late Publisher Frank Munsey...
...Gaynor . . . after Tammany had refused to renominate him for Mayor, it desires to repeat now. . . . Had the Mayor been able to control himself as sturdily as he was able to resist control from the outside he would be a commanding figure. . . . " More violently, William Allen White wrote: "Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead [Dec. 22, 1925]. Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meatpacker, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker. He and his kind have about succeeded in transforming a once noble profession into an eight percent...