Word: tammen
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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...
...Even the blood relationship of brothers is as nothing compared to the friendship of 'Bonfils and Tammen,' to link your names in the fashion it has become the custom to do the country over...
...business partner with whom he made the Denver Post a potent factor in Western life was H. H. Tammen, garrulous bartender...
...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...