Word: tammen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maliciousness was intentional. . . . It is my belief bottomed upon years of experience, that while a newspaper should and can be better than the community in which it is published, it must not be too much better or it will rapidly reach the state of bankruptcy in which Bonfils and Tammen found the Denver Post back in the 'go's. In other words, a newspaper, to a degree, must give the public what it wants. Perhaps Bonfils and Tammen erred in the degree, but taking the whole thing by and large Denver rather than the publishers is responsible...
...Kansas City Post, under the direction of you and Mr. Tammen, was my high school and my university. From you two, my professors, I learned most that I know of life and human nature...
...business partner with whom he made the Denver Post a potent factor in Western life was H. H. Tammen, garrulous bartender...
...Post of the Yellow '90s was little flimsier than its Denver contemporaries, excepting the historic Rocky Mountain News. The latter's name alone was sufficient to carry it through the jamboree that followed Mr. Tammen's advent, and until 1913 it was in the able hands of Sen. Thomas M. Patterson. But all other Denver papers soon wilted. As soon as the Post began to pay, which was very soon, Gambler Bonfils appeared upon the scene to collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst...
...power; he is strikingly handsome, though haggard after an illness, even today; his temper and resourcefulness in quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty ranchers and eager townsmen. It was Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy...