Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revered Eagle revert to the Hesters and Gunnisons, oldtime Brooklyn families from whom he had bought it. Last week Chain-Publisher Block sold his Standard Union to the up-&-coming Brooklyn daily Times with which it was immediately consolidated. The Times's publisher is Fremont Carson ("Monty") Peck, 33, who inherited the paper from his father, a distinguished Brooklynite...
Compared with the long fame of the Eagle, the Times is unknown outside of Brooklyn. Yet the circulations of both papers are around 100,000. It was not always so. When the late Carson C. Peck, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co., bought it in 1912, the Times was the small neighborhood organ of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. (An early editor was William Cullen Bryant.) Mr. Peck acquired it because he was approaching the Woolworth retirement age of 60 and wanted something to do. At the same time the Eagle was practically the daily Bible of Brooklyn...
...time "Monty" Peck was graduated from Princeton in 1920 he found a different Times and a different Brooklyn. John H. Harman, who had administered the paper since the elder Peck's death in 1915, had moved its plant to a business centre of the city (now Times Plaza) and increased its circulation to some 15,000. The Eagle was still dominant but youthful Publisher Peck thought he saw its influence slipping. New subways and new bridges had brought many thousands of Manhattan workers to live in Brooklyn. Apartment houses were popping up to replace the genteel old residences of Brooklyn...
Tactics in political whispering campaigns were also described to the committee. Men were hired to go into smoking cars and spread insinuating reports of President Wilson's relations with Mrs. Peck, an old friend with whom he corresponded regularly. This was met by having a friend write an open letter to a New York newspaper, praising the ideal relations between the two. Whispering strategists dictated the rumor that President Harding had Negro blood. Should such methods be used to create the belief that Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, is physically unable to do the work of a president, proper tactics would...
...Huberman '34, A. C. Jack 1L., F. J. Jeffers '33, R. B. LeRoy '34, J. L. Madden ocC., R. V. Mancini '34, Robert Mandel '34, R. R. McGoodwin '35, R. J. McVeigh 3L., D. P. Meekison '35, G. W. Meyer '35, E. V. Newman '35, L. F. Peck 4G., F. G. Poeter 2L., R. M. Powell '35, R. K. Pratt '34, D. F. Rogers '34, I. S. Rosenblatt 1L., P. H. Russell 3L., J. F. Russell '33, W. A. Russell 3L., Leon Ryack '35, T. A. Robinson '34, Kane Semonian '33, A. B. Sullivan '34, N. L. Tenney...