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Other newspapers in which F. P. A." has conducted a column go back to the Chicago Journal of 1903. Next F. P. A. column appeared in the now long-dead New York Mail following year. Ten years later, F. P. A. was working for Ogden Reid. In the War, F. P. A. was a captain in the Intelligence Service, wrote a column, The Listening Post, in the A. E. F. newspaper, The Stars & Stripes. In his years of column-conducting, F. P. A. has been noted, like Chicago's late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much...
...column of Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."). Mr. Adams cheerfully explained in a characteristic sentence: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more." But New York newspapermen knew that the differenfce went deeper than dollars. Between stolid, self-conscious Mr. Reid and saturnine, self-satisfied Mr. Adams, for 16 years a quarrel had smoldered...
...left Mr. Reid's New York Tribune to join the World. Mr. Reid considered this an act of disloyalty. At the end of the World in 1931, Ogden Reid did not want F. P. A. back on his paper-now the Herald Tribune-on any terms. But Mrs. Ogden Reid knew the sheet needed a good column and overruled her husband. F. P. A. returned at $25,000 a year, which was later reduced...
Three years ago, F. P. A. asked for a new contract, left his column out of the paper for one day until Publisher Reid, who does not like to sign things, acquiesced. The resulting document, to hold for three years, was signed by the columnist but never by the publisher. Last week when this "one-way" contract came up for renewal, Mrs. Reid could not break the impasse. Remarked Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt...
When it was launched at the Century's turn by the gaudiest crew of bigtime promoters in U. S. history, American Can Co. was very nearly a perfect monopoly. It had at the start, thanks to the tireless efforts of Judge William Moore, Daniel Gray ("Tsar") Reid and William Bateman ("Tin Plate") Leeds, over nine-tenths of the country's entire can business. But by the time the trustbusters of Roosevelt I got to work on it, American Can had already destroyed its virtual monopoly by its dizzying prices. Competitors had swarmed in under the "Tin Can Trust...