Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chirruped Publisher Roy Wilson Howard of the Scripps-Howard chain-papers nine years ago to an enthusiastic, moonfaced subordinate named Tom Sharp who, believing that the city of El Paso, Texas needed another newspaper, but unable to persuade his chiefs, had gone to his chiefs' retired Big Chief, to "Old Man" Edward Wyllis Scripps himself, and obtained personal backing, started the El Paso Post...
...Memphis. All he had asked of his chiefs was enough money for a hatful of type, one reporter and a couple of business aids. That was the scale on which Old Man Scripps started most of his papers, beginning with the Cleveland Press. But that was not the way Roy Howard and his partner Robert Paine Scripps, the Old Man's youngest son. thought things should be done in modern times...
...into strong national relief. Mr. Hearst is aging; his sons are youths. Mr. Ochs and Mr. Reid are great conservative impersonalities. Mr. Curtis never has loomed as a newspaper publisher. Except for Publishers Patterson & McCormick, there are no other national newspaper personages except Chain-publishers Robert Paine Scripps and Roy Wilson Howard...
...father) and editorial director. If imagination be stretched he could discharge his good friend Howard, second-biggest stockholder or General Manager Hawkins, third biggest. (The rest is distributed throughout the chain.) But neither aspires to be a dictator. To almost everyone in the company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows, is the dyed-in-wool reporter, the scoopster, the man who wants to be where everything is going on-and is. (Last week he returned from a holiday in Havana. Scripps was at his Ridgefield, Conn...
...several cars, usually drives a Mercedes, never takes a chauffeur. Roy Howard, impulsive and impatient, is a "terrible driver," rarely takes the wheel of his Minerva or Locomobile...