Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.B.C. (Audit Bureau of Circulations) report made news last fortnight in the Pacific Northwest. The 91-year-old Portland Oregonian (a.m.) passed in daily circulation its rival the Journal...
During the early '30s the hard-fighting Journal held a nip-&-tuck lead over the Oregonian. In 1937, when chunky, agile-minded Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt took over, the Oregonian began a circulation march that in two years carried it to an 18,000 lead over the Journal. Then in 1939 the Journal bought the money-making News-Telegram for $525,000 and apparently clinched its lead with a solid 16,000 advantage...
...Grant, reporter, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Henning Heldt, reporter, Jacksonville Journal; Everett R. Holles, cable editor, United Press; Victor O. Jones, sports editor and assistant managing editor, Boston Globe; Robert Lasch, foreign news editor and editorial writer. Omaha World-Herald; Edward M. Miller, Sunday and feature editor, Portland Oregonian; Thomas Sancton, reporter, Associated Press; Kenneth N. Stewart, national news editor, The Newspaper...
...restrained were other editors who jumped on Chairman Flynn. The Sacramento Union's Charles J. Lilley called the accusation "a deliberate falsehood." In Portland, Ore. the Oregon Journal printed a cartoon of Flynn peering under a bed for hobgoblins; the Oregonian's cried scornfully: "A fine set of knaves to be accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style...
...October 3, the guest of honor will be Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of New York's new newspaper, P.M. Other guests slated for dinners this fall are Joseph W. Alsop, Washington commentator; Roy E. Larsen, publisher of Life and president of Time, Inc.; and Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Portland Oregonian...