Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think so," replied Mrs. Gottwald. "My husband is so busy. But we shall send him a telegram...
Able Newspaperman McCullagh decided to get tough first with Toronto's Liberal Star (circ. 369,276), longtime rival of the Telegram, and Canada's biggest newspaper. The Star charged that the Telegram had lost its independence and that McCullagh was a front man "for outside influence and ownership." McCullagh snapped that the Telegram deal was his own. "That fellow Hindmarsh [Harry Comfort Hindmarsh, Star president]," he roared, ". . . is so ugly that if he ever bit himself he'd get hydrophobia...
...Pattern. To fight the Star, McCullagh promised to get the Telegram out of its old rut of playing to Toronto's arch-Tories, Imperialists and anti-Catholic Orange order. Said he: "The Globe & Mail will be the pattern, particularly in such things as ... racial and religious prejudice...
...flamboyant Star, Publisher McCullagh would need a big pattern. In twelve years as publisher of the Globe & Mail, he had added only 21,697 to the circulation he started with. In the same period, the highflying Star had caught 121,059 new subscribers; even the slow-poking Telegram had gained 42,290. The figures did not faze bellicose George. Said he: "The smart talk will soon be about the waning Star...
...terms of the will of the Telegram's founder, John Ross Robertson, who died in 1918, the paper had to be sold after all the Robertson heirs were dead...