Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grey, 69-year-old Democrat Michelson, who has seen four Republican publicity ghosts come & go since he took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise...
...Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association but an advertising representative, which last year placed about $2,500,000 of the $7,000,000 of national advertising in country weeklies...
...dominates both W. N. U. and A. P. A. qualifies as No. 1 in the rural press. Last week it seemed that the man would be 57-year-old John Holliday Perry. Already president of A. P. A., which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust...
...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...
ISAAC FRANKLIN, SLAVE TRADER AND PLANTER OF THE OLD SOUTH-Wendell Holmes Stephenson-Louisiana State University Press...