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Word: papere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Competition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea but no executive ability-and no resources, to fight its opulent rival. It started bravely, dwindled sadly. When it changed hands last week it was doubtless bought in at an exceedingly low figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Competition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels-Naphtha soap, Whitman's candies) ; George Batten Co. (which has Cliquot Club Ginger Ale, Colgate & Co., Hamilton Watch, Hammermill Paper, Iver Johnson, McCallum hosiery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...News won't do as the sole commodity for any paper, because Life, said to be a great dramatist, is a most indifferent journalist. You cannot leave the contents of any daily publication to Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Poor Journalist | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

From the standpoint of multi-millionaire publishers, not only newspapers but editors are sometimes regarded as commodities that occasionally change hands. Last week Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, secured a new editor for his Manhattan paper, the New York Evening Post. The man whom Mr. Curtis secured is Julian Mason, who violates all newspaper tradition by being an exceedingly well dressed man, the best dressed editor in the country.* But Mr. Mason is not simply a natty dresser. He brought the Chicago Evening Post to a high rank among the newspapers of that city, was then called to Manhattan to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Editor, Old Chair | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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