Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after nearly 26 years, Richmond's newspaper history completed a full circle. Negotiations were afoot to bring the Times-Dispatch and the News Leader under one management, as they were in 1914 when the Bryans owned them...
...Bryan family moved up to Virginia from Georgia before the Civil War, married well, prospered, got into the newspaper business. When Joseph Bryan died, he left Richmond's morning paper, the Times-Dispatch, to his sons. In 1909 Son John Stewart Bryan bought Richmond's evening paper, the News Leader. Five years later he sold the Times-Dispatch...
...Bryans continued to prosper, branched out into Richmond real estate, put up a private toll bridge across the James...
Like the Bryans, Publisher Slover had other interests-real estate, banks, the Norfolk & Western Railway, the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach. But Richmond was far afield. For a time the Times-Dispatch did not do so well as the News Leader, but in recent years, under Mark Foster Ethridge (now general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal} and his successor, lean, hawk-nosed John Dana Wise, the Times-Dispatch got back on its feet. Last year, with a circulation of 82,176, it was not far behind the News Leader...
...Bryan of Richmond. Last week, in Richmond, Samuel Slover and John Stewart Bryan jointly announced that they will merge the Times-Dispatch with the News Leader. Although they kept details of the union to themselves, it was no secret among Richmond newsmen that Publisher Bryan will control both papers...