Word: ridder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York newspaper capital reached out and acquired the St. Paul Dispatch and the Pioneer Press, which St. Paul reads mornings. Three brothers Ridder and Leo E. Owens, publishers of the Journal of Commerce, Manhattan, the New York Staats-Zeitung Herald (German daily) and the Jamaica (L. I.) Press are the new owners. They announce no change of policy in St. Paul. The St. Paul News is the other daily newspaper of that city. Minneapolis, rival city across the Mississippi River, has the Daily Star, Tribune and Journal...
...owners were the brothers Ridder - Victor F., Bernard H., Joseph E. - sons of the late Herman Ridder who, born a New Yorker, in 1851 of German parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly...