Word: postings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With his financial base secure, Kennedy began to harbor political ambitions. He poured $25,000 into Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, raised another $100,000 from friends. F.D.R. rewarded him with public office-the chairmanship of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, endorsed appeasement...
...Show, which seemed at first to be a one-shot special, may have gone weekly. Exactly seven days after the Vice President telecast his Des Moines attack on TV newscasters and commentators, he went on the air again, this time to flay the New York Times and the Washington Post Co. Unlike the premiere, the second installment, from George Wallace's own Montgomery, Ala., did not get network coverage. But it was telecast, live or on tape, in some cities, including New York and Washington (where it was carried by the Post's WTOP-TV). It continued...
...trend toward the monopolization of the great public-information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." It was a promising introduction to a subject that needs discussion. But the only news conglomerate he mentioned was the Washington Post Co., which is hardly a giant in a field inhabited by the Newhouse chain (22 newspapers, seven TV stations, seven radio stations, 20 magazines), Scripps-Howard (16 newspapers, four TV stations, three radio stations) and the Knight group (eleven newspapers, six radio stations, one TV station...
...only are the Washington Post Co.'s holdings relatively small (one newspaper, one news magazine, three TV stations, two radio stations), they are in highly competitive situations. The newspaper, as Owner Kay Graham was quick to point out, publishes in one of the three U.S. cities left with three major dailies under separate ownership. (New York and Chicago are the others.) And the magazine, Newsweek, hardly lacks for vigorous competition...
Agnew complained further that the Washington Post Co.'s outlets are "all grinding out the same editorial line," and "hearken to the same master." There, the Vice President had a point. Mrs. Graham is not inclined to install top editors who stray too far from her own liberal views. It was perhaps unfortunate for her that when Newsweek's Lester Bernstein commented on Agnew's speech over CBS radio in New York, he chose precisely the same words used by Mrs. Graham. But a partial contradiction of Agnew's charge of monolithism was produced...