Word: ridder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggressive newspaper chains last week announced plans for one of the largest mergers ever. If the deal is approved by stockholders and government agencies, the Knight Newspapers, with 16 dailies in the Midwest, East and South, will soon join forces with Ridder Publications, which owns 19 dailies and eight weeklies mostly in the West. The resulting Knight-Ridder Inc. would be a formidable enterprise. With 35 daily papers and a total circulation of 3,496,000, the combine would be within striking distance of the leading chain, the Chicago Tribune group; its seven papers, which include the Tribune...
...Sergeant John Mordas, 36, awakened in his home across the street, felt differently. He was so annoyed by the intrusion of the sound of a very fine carillon on his rest that he promptly wrote up a citation and mailed it to the church's pastor, Herman J. Ridder. The charge: noise pollution. A city ordinance passed last March declares that "any noise of any kind" constitutes a "general nuisance." The fact that there happened to be majesty to this particular noise was not a mitigating factor...
...volume and agreed to change the direction of the speakers in order to disperse the sound. It could not be said that the church lacked proper regard for the rights of its neighbors. More widely adopted, however, the city's ordinance could make for a rather cheerless Christmas. Ridder has agreed that the bells will chime only five to eight minutes instead of the 18-minute Thanksgiving toll. "We don't want to be a nuisance," he says. "On the other hand, the church ought to be able to indicate its presence in a community. There is something...
...become his signature. He personally picked an unusually small group of reporters to make the trip, and thus provoked another run-in with the press. Among the 34 publications that applied for space and were rejected were several that invariably cover such state trips: the Washington Post, TIME, the Ridder newspapers and the Baltimore Sun, Agnew's hometown paper. When the Sun complained, Agnew's press secretary Herbert Thompson replied: "To be quite honest, he doesn't like the Sun. He feels he is a hometown boy, and instead of taking pride in him, [the Sun] acts...