Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dooley. He gave up his untidy house in town, moved out to a country home near Stamford, Conn. There he clothed his immensity in a pair of frayed trousers and a sweatshirt. But he remained a member of Manhattan's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club, wore costly suits made by...
On the day his first and only piece appeared in the Post, Heywood Broun lay unconscious under an oxygen tent. A priest had administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. This week Heywood Broun was dead. An oldtime newspaperman, attached to an evening paper, he would have been...
For more than two years, rumors have been abroad that a big newspaper deal would shortly pop up in Atlanta. Last week that rumor ripened into fact. Dayton Publisher James Middleton Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio. Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1920 against Ohio Publisher Warren...
The Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox...