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...crusading publisher of two small Vermont dailies, had taken-over in Manchester-and to help swing the $1,250,000 deal (he had put up only $250,000 of his own) had invited in a trio of shrewd news tycoons that New Hampshire had hardly heard of: the Ridder Bros., of New York and points west, whose favorite reading matter is not headlines but balance sheets...
Outpost of Empire. Victor, Joseph (his twin) and Bernard Ridder thereby added a new outpost to a little-known, $15,000,000 empire that already stretched from coast to coast. Its founder was astute Herman Ridder, who started the Catholic News 60 years ago, bought Manhattan's Staats-Zeitung in 1890 and died in 1915, leaving to his sons the delicate job of steering a German-language paper through the storms of anti-German feeling in World...
...into the second position, but leaves the third slot still occupied by Sears. Sears' performance in the Christmas vacation play was also little short of sensational as he did not drop a game until his finals match with Orr. His greatest triumph came when he whaled Princeton's Ridder 3-0 in the semi-final bracket...
Among them was Harry Hopkins. He tapped Somervell for the biggest relief job in the country, the New York City WPA, which had worn out two administrators, including old Hugh Johnson. At that time the red-bordered Workers' Alliance was shouting "Get rid of Ridder" (Johnson successor) and Somervell went in wryly offering a new battle cry: "Sink Somervell...
...Medical School recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...