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...half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom he could not be generous. That was Publisher Frank Munsey, whose obituary stated briefly that he had "contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker...
Antithesis of the late hated Chain Publisher Frank Munsey, Frank Gannett gives his editors a free hand, signs his name to anything he asks them to publish in conflict with the papers' policies. For supervising his autonomous brood he draws an aggregate salary of $64,370 a year. Politically he is independent. A Hooverite and a Dry in 1932. he became a New Dealer through his interest in managed currency and his friendship with its No. 1 manager, Cornell's famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment...
...before the War he moved on to Manhattan and James Gordon Bennett's Herald. In the War Harris won the rank of captain of military intelligence, returned to Paris as editor and general manager of the Herald's European edition. When the Heralds were sold to Frank Munsey in 1920, Harris drifted back to his native...
From an obscure item in your Miscellany department I concocted a fiction story which recently sold to Detective Fiction, a Munsey weekly publication...
...meritorious cycle: He began life as a $3.50-a-week stenographer on the Washington Times 35 years ago, when the late Walter Hutchins owned it. Arthur Newmyer, whose father ran a steam carpet-cleaning plant in Washington, rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred to the advertising side, his successful profession ever since. Twenty-three years ago Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson of the New Orleans Item-Tribune hired Adman Newmyer as business manager. Under his management the papers thrived, and he with...