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Denver is an evening paper city and its evening paper is the Post which shrieked its way to the top under rough, tough old Fred Bonfils. Denver is also a city in which Scripps-Howard has had some of the hardest going in its career. Last week the Scripps-Howard...
Unlike William Randolph Hearst who never sells a paper, Scripps-Howard has jettisoned dailies in Baltimore, Sacramento, Terre Haute, Des Moines and Dallas. Last week new Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins lopped the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram off the Scripps-Howard chain. Founded in 1851, bought by Scripps-Howard in 1922...
In the opinion of his closest associates, lively little Publisher Howard relinquished the Scripps-Howard high command not that he might further indulge his instinct for finding and timing news, but rather to permit him to concentrate more attention on the World-Telegram.
Of all the Scripps-Howard chain, the World-Telegram's metropolitan performance is almost exclusively a Roy Howard show. Singlehanded in 1931 he carried through the negotiations by which the failing Brothers Pulitzer's Worlds were merged for $3,000,000 (plus $2,000,000 future profits) with...
The World-Telegram soon developed into Mayor LaGuardia's most vigilant critic. And so have Scripps-Howard papers recently delivered stinging attacks against certain aspects of the New Deal, largely through Columnists Raymond Clapper and Westbrook Pegler. Publisher Howard went on record in 1932 as a friend of the...