Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oldest Daily Newspaper in the United States. Established 1793" -The Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York)-has been consolidated out of existence. Frank A. Munsey did it As anticipated when Mr. Munsey bought The Globe (TIME, June 4), he merged it with The Sun (New York) to give the latter paper Associated Press service which it lacked...
...Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the stockholders' consent to an increase of capitalization from $225,000.000 to $300,000,000. This shift in the oil line-up has drawn public attention to the personalities, policy, present condition and past history of this oldest of American trusts...
Popular opinion has perhaps assumed that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was the oldest of Senators. Lodge is the senior member of the upper house merely because he has served more continuous terms than any other member. Senator Lodge entered the Senate in 1893 and has been there ever since. He is 73, only...
...America's oldest established daily newspaper," boasts The Globe (New York) in a full page advertisement in other New York dailies. The Globe was founded December 9, 1793, by Noah Webster and has been " published regularly every evening except Sunday and important holidays ever since...
Since the time when "The Oldest College Daily" was founded, in 1878, undergraduate journalism has become a profession in itself. Today almost every college has its daily or weekly news publication. Beginning often as semi-literary journals, they shifted the emphasis until they have come to serve the student body in the capacity once filled by official publications, at the same time that they cover the news of the college and sometimes of the outside world. The business side of the work has increased in complexity and importance. Editorial polices, too, have developed so that they cover student matters...