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The British Ambassador might have taken exception to the Washington Post's assertion that King Edward "plans to marry" Mrs. Ernest Simpson. Or Sir Ronald might have objected to the United Press story carried from coast to coast by the Scripps-Howard chain under headlines the entire width of...
On September 30, Herbert Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of Hearst's New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times set off on the Hindenburg to race around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for...
Scripps-Howard's parent company entered Memphis 30 years ago with the Press. In 1926, the Press swallowed the News-Scimitar. Same year the powerful old morning Commercial Appeal aimed an Evening Appeal at the Press-Scimitar. Just before the Evening Appeal appeared, Editor & Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney...
In 1933, James Thomas Hammond Jr. appeared to buy the Appeals with money loaned by "friends in the Scripps-Howard organization." His first official act was to liquidate Scripps-Howard's afternoon competition. Last week Scripps-Howard completed the capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing...
Into town to take charge of the Commercial Appeal went dapper, able little John Harvey Sorrells. Scripps-Howard executive editor and troubleshooter, whose first newspaper job was as a Commercial Appeal carrier.