Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher-Groceryman McDonald blamed the Commission's action on his old foe-shrewd, ponderous, Publisher-Editor George Fort Milton of the rival News, who is an old and valued friend of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "Publisher Milton," he snapped, "has long swaggered over the country as the lord of the Tennessee Valley. . . . The Free Press will continue to compete with his ... newspaper with every honest means...
Most promising field for starting new papers apparently is in cities where mergers and losses have created a one-paper or one-publisher monopoly. Last week in Omaha, where the World-Herald has been all alone since the Hearst Bee News folded its wings last year. Russian-born Publisher David Blacker announced he was stepping up his weekly Post to a semiweekly, would make it a daily by January 1 "or quit." The Post was started two months ago after 25,000 Omahans took a chance and subscribed. It is said to be selling around 50,000 copies...
...Rochester, N. Y., the three-month-old Evening News (TIME, Aug. 1) made even better progress in breaking the monopoly inherited by Publisher Frank Gannett when Hearst withdrew in 1937. Although the News was not expected to break even until Christmas, last week it was reported to have $6,000 of profits in the bank...
...years ago the Free Press donned long pants and became a commercial afternoon daily with a Sunday edition. Immediately Tennessee Electric Power Co.* took most of its advertising from the rival afternoon News, vigorous advocate of a TVA-fed municipal power system, and became the No. i advertising customer of Mr. McDonald's Free Press. It paid the paper's highest rate, $1.26 an inch, though the News had charged it only...
...Latest circulation figures: News, 35,741; Free Press, 34,721.) To the Congressional committee investigating TVA last summer the Free Press general manager explained T.E.P. could have had a cheaper rate under contract, added: "We never offered them a contract." This later caused Committee Counsel Francis Biddle to bark: "Tennessee Electric has been subsidizing...