Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With regret I have to tell you that I have resigned because of irreconcilable differences of opinion with Mr. Pulitzer as to the general conduct of the paper, and am leaving the office Aug. 13. 1 recognize and respect the rights and responsibilities of ownership and make no complaint...
...that a major cause of Depression II was the failure of private industry to undertake pump-priming when the Government cut down. Certainly no private industry primed the pump less than the utilities; they had held up capital expenditures since the start of the New Deal's public-ownership and "death-sentence" deals (see below). Utility officers, in turn, explain the estimated dam of $3,000,000,000 in such expenditures on grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by the Government's power policy to put more money into the business...
...Anthony, automobile dealer with a State-wide chain of Packard agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing a network like fellow Automobile-Dealer Don Lee (Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmobile), husky, bushy-browed Broadcaster Anthony took the station ownership road to radio importance. In 1922 he founded 50-watt KFI, built it to 50,000 watts. He brought fame to his newer station, KECA, bought in 1929, with his program of symphonic recordings. A spare-time musician himself, he collaborated with Hula-Expert Johnny Noble on a popular tune...
Prepared for these gentlemen to frown over and approve was an indictment of the South's condition as to markets, freight rates, capital, absentee ownership, farm earnings, health, education, soil abuse, fertilizer, power, etc., etc. The gentlemen solemnly "agreed" to it all, adding Wages & Hours as a point of their own to be considered. Then they left Washington apparently leaving it up to Director Mellett to frame their "report to the President...
...Perry's qualifications as a rural press titan include ownership of the American Press, trade paper for weeklies, and Publishers' Autocaster Service, which has cut costs for national advertisers by selling country publishers thousands of casting boxes for making plates. Mr. Perry entered the publishing business as an attorney for the James G. Scripps papers in the Northwest. Later he became national counsel for the United Press Associations, the Scripps Newspapers and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Publisher Perry owns four dailies in Florida† and the bright Reading, Pa. Times. He has made money in Florida real estate...