Word: munsey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frank Munsey...
Frank A. Munsey was dining at the Ritz, his Manhattan home. It had been a satisfactory day. In the morning at the office of the Sun he had given a few directions to his trusty group of executives. The afternoon he had passed at his 1,000-acre estate on Long Island. He never felt better, he said. And others, as the year neared its end, were speaking of the phenomenal Sun profits?at least $1,000,000. Suddenly, at dinner, he became ill. Within a few hours, on the advice of Drs. Frank R. Oastler and Samuel W. Lambert...
...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...
...their ladies (except Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Work), Director of the Budget and Mrs. Lord, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Mr. and Mrs. Henry White, Mr. Richard Washburn Child, Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, President and Mrs. James R. Angell of Yale, Mr. Frank A. Munsey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. Edward B. McLean and others to the number of 50. After dinner in the East Room, Madame Schumann-Heink and Mischa Elman furnished music...
...sold it to Munsey, who sold it to Hearst...