Word: ridder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down, or resorted to Vari-Type. The Journal of Commerce, oldest (121 years) U.S. business paper and the only New York daily still living on historic Park Row (in the old Pulitzer Building), did neither. Along with 24 other editorial and ad staffers, curly-haired Editor & Publisher Bernard J. Ridder, 35, and his 30-year-old brother Eric, general manager, sat down at the linotype machines and set the type themselves. (They had once been linotype operators as part of their journalistic training...
...sent the Enquirer's operating statement to "a small, selected group of well-qualified people," who were invited to submit sealed bids. Among the prospective bidders: Hulbert Taft, cousin of Senator Bob Taft and operator of the 108-year-old Cincinnati Times-Star; Chain Publisher Frank Gannett; the Ridder brothers of Manhattan and Minnesota; and portly Publisher Silliman Evans of the Nashville Tennessean. Enquirer Publisher Roger Ferger, 54, who joined the staff as advertising manager in 1920, may enter a bid himself, backed by local capital. And Newspaper Broker Smith Davis had others on the string...
...near North Side, washroom rumors had bubbled up about the paper's impending sale or suspension. Finally Colonel John D. Ames, editor and publisher, called his 200 employees together and told them what was up. Not death but a marriage was in the offing. Last week, the Ridder Bros.' New York Journal of Commerce, oldest (120 years) business paper...
...Ridders and Colonel Ames, it seemed that the Journals were made for each other. Both were businessmen's bibles; both had a pious regard for the value (and news value) of a dollar. Each had valuable commodity market services and news which the other could use. United, they could afford a bigger network of correspondents, could exchange their news by direct wire. And a merger would add a strong Chicago outpost to the Ridder radio and newspaper empire...
...deal was a sign that a new generation of Ridders was coming along nicely. Three months ago, when New York University Economist Jules Bogen left the editor's chair at the New York Journal of Commerce, Bernard J. Ridder took over at the Journal. Now Bernard and his brother Eric, two of Founding Father Herman Ridder's eight grandsons, will go on the board of the Chicago Journal...