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...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...
...Ridders' Staats-Zeitung, after one false start, was steadfastly anti-Hitler. (Bernard Ridder, home from a 1933 trip to Berlin, sized up Hitler as "a man of peace.") Long before World War II, the Ridder papers went interventionist, which hurt them in the isolationist Midwest...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...