Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Mr. Adolph Ochs, owner of what Comrade Mencken would call the "eminent" New York Times, having arrived in Hawaii on a holiday expressed himself to one of the local newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser, as follows...
...Detroit last week were busy running back and forth between two rooms of the Wardell Hotel. They were demonstrating for the first time a new radio typewriter, called a Watsongraph, to representatives from the U. S. Government, the Michigan State Police, the Press. One man was the hotel owner, white-haired Fred Wardell, president of Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. He had furnished the money to exploit the new invention. The other man. who inspected his guests owlishly through horn-rimmed glasses, was the inventor, Glenn W. Watson, onetime salesman. Mr. Watson, new to inventing, had learned about electricity only three...
...conviction rather than a spiritual necessity, however. Soon after his first Press began making money, Publisher Scripps began what amounted to the invention of chain journalism. His system: find an ambitious young man, stake him as cheaply as possible (the way E. W. Scripps began), let him be part owner; the greater the young man's profits, the greater E. W. Scripps's. It was as an editorial success formula that Publisher Scripps enjoined his young men to attack Graft and Corruption, to cry out for the Common People. He never enjoined them always to put crusading ahead...
About 1900, New York City submerged Katonah under the waters of the Croton Reservoir. The village built up on another site. The tombstones in the village cemetery were abandoned and were taken up by the owner of this newspaper, at that time, to be used for composing stones. When the plant was moved to Mount Kisco, 18 years ago, the stones came with it. They were not discovered until Jan. 5, 1931, when I discovered one which had accidentally been turned up. They make ideal stones for composing...
...former owner of this newspaper who is still living assured me that the tombstones had been abandoned when he claimed them. Personally, I believe that no spirit of irreverence prompted the use of tombstones in print shops and newspaper plants. Rather, it seems, that their scarcity, size and shape caused their use. They certainly were practical...