Word: schiff
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Murdoch was under far less economic pressure to go it alone against fellow publishers than was former Post Owner Dorothy Schiff during the 114-day strike of 1962-63. Schiff settled with the unions 28 days before the other papers, insisting that otherwise the Post would fold. Murdoch was reported to be losing up to $12 million a year on the paper before the strike, so by not publishing he may merely have been cutting his losses. Additionally, Murdoch's New York magazine and Village Voice picked up a circulation and ad revenue windfall from the strike-Voice...
...people hate me so?" Kennedy asked New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff in 1965. Bobby seems to have been honestly bewildered by this question up to the moment of the assassination that he expected ("Sooner or later," he told one friend, "sooner or later"). Schlesinger's Manichaean fable of a lonely R.F.K. crossing swords with the forces of darkness does not fully explain the passions that this remarkable politician stirred...
...nearly 1,800 employees. A protégé of Illinois Senator Charles Percy, Peterson succeeded Percy as chief of Bell & Howell in 1963, served in various capacities in the Nixon Administration (including Commerce Secretary), joined Lehman in 1973 and within months became chairman. The aristocratic John Mortimer Schiff, 73, now chairman of Kuhn Loeb, will become honorary chairman, and Harvey Krueger, 48, who is now president, will become chairman of the banking policy committee. But the amalgamation would seem to be more of a takeover than a merger, since the Lehman faction will control seven of the ten seats...
...talented investigative reporter, and Peter Hobbs, as a police-beat hack, avoid most of the acting clichés usually found in Front Page-style entertainments. Nancy Marchand plays the paper's imperious, widowed publisher as a cross between the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Dorothy Schiff, the former owner of the New York Post. If Marchand and Asner keep up their game of verbal Ping Pong, they could become TV's Hepburn and Tracy...
...purchase violated antitrust rules barring concentration in any given industry, arguing that the company could have entered the coal business by investing its own capital. After a five-year rear-guard battle against the FTC ruling in the courts, Kennecott's board, which includes such powers as John Schiff, chairman of the investment banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Co., and Walter Page, president of Morgan Guaranty Trust, finally lopped off the coal business. Then it began considering ways to use the resulting billion-dollar bonanza. The board's conclusions: diversify into another business (possible targets: forest products...