Word: riddering
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...service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading his own territory with Wirephotos. Moreover, said he, the Wirephoto machines were bought with money ($432,000) that belonged to the whole AP -non-users of Wirephoto as well as users. Angrily to the defense rushed Publisher Joseph Ridder of the St. Paul Dispatch et al. Cried he: "An insult to the board of directors! . . . You get what you pay for m this world, and now we are asked to vote that forever after the AP may never improve its mat-service if it should cost more...
...Manhattan meeting of leaders of the United German Societies early last week, the Ridder Brothers, proprietors of the New York Staats-Zeitung and the New Yorker Herold, influential U. S. German-language dailies, rose to charge Nazi Spanknoebel with attempting to dictate to their papers, charged that German Day was about to become a Hitler Day celebration. The audience jeered. A Dr. Griebl attempted to hit Bernard Ridder. Somebody twice pulled the chair out from under the Jewish treasurer, and a delegation of the United Societies Party wound up in City Hall to hear a riot act read to them...
...days later the entire matter was threshed out in City Hall again, but by this time Heinz Spanknoebel had disappeared. The Federal Government started a search for him. The Ridder Brothers and other witnesses testified that he and other "Storm Troopers" had terrorized German-American societies, forced out their Jewish members...
...Paul, Minn, last week learned that it is to become a one-newspaper town. The Ridder Brothers. Manhattan chain publishers, got control of the only daily there that they did not already own. They operate the evening Dispatch and the morning Pioneer Press. What they bought was the slipping, 33-year-old evening News, for a reputed price...
...protested to St. Paul NRA officials that if the News were killed, 1,000 em- ployes would be thrown out of work. The City Council adopted a resolution severely criticizing the merger. Governor Floyd B. Olson wrote a letter to the NRA in Washington. Retorted the Brothers Ridder in their Dispatch: "The Federal Government itself has recently found it necessary to let out many thousands of employes. Many marginal concerns have been going out of business since the start of the Depression. The net result will be fewer business institutions but stronger and better ones...