Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Omaha...
Neither choice was extraordinary. Victor was a good name for a child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city...
...quoting Literary Digest existed in 1871 to extract the first strong utterances of the Omaha Bee. Staunchly Republican, the Omaha Bee fought many a battle with its senior, the Democratic Omaha World-Herald. Most fast, most furious, were the wars of 1894-96, when a silver-tongued Boy Orator sat in the editor's chair at the World-Herald offices. William Jennings Bryan was no mean antagonist. His personality still dominates the World-Herald. Such battles tested, strengthened the Omaha Bee, so that its name became a Literary Digest perennial...
...American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
Last week, Publisher Updike announced the sale of the Omaha Bee-News to Publisher Hearst. For the Bee-News, his 25th newspaper, Publisher Hearst paid between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, and persuaded Henry Justin Allen to come up from Kansas to edit...