Word: peck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Tichenor undertook expansion at the instance of his oldtime friend, wealthy Frederick Stanhope Peck of Providence, R. I., State Commissioner of Finance and Republican National Committeeman. Mr. Peck and the New England banking house of Bodell & Co. were heavy stockholders in Angus Co., publishers of Spur, which ceased to pay dividends last year. Together with Publisher Tichenor, already a small stockholder, they secured control, vested...
Born in Gethsemane, Ky., Publisher Tichenor attended Villanova College (from which he subsequently got an honorary LL.D. for his friend Mr. Peck). He arrived in Manhattan 25 years ago with $4.40 in his pockets, talked himself into a job with a commercial photographer...
Harold D. Chope, of Richmond, Eugene C. Peck, of New London, Conn., and John W. Heim, of Carlisle, Penn., have been awarded fellowships in the School of Public Health...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
Meanwhile the Standard Union, which had been aiming at virtually the same class of reader and advertiser, slipped steadily backward. Recognizing the duplication, Publisher Peck tried to buy the competing paper at public auction in 1926, finally got it last week. Its circulation...