Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at Johns Hopkins) to edit the Item...
...Item brought out a morning edition called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...months later (after Long got rid of various political friends of Ewing's) the States dropped Huey. Subsequently Publisher Thomson's Item and Tribune decided to back him. They stuck with Long and his successors for nine years while the Tribune's circulation soared to 47,817, then relapsed; the Item hit a peak of 67,603 and likewise receded. Meanwhile, Colonel Ewing died. Publisher Thomson tried to buy the States and merge it with his Item. Instead, to his bitter surprise, the Times-Picayune got the States for an afternoon edition...
...complete roster of officers as elected last night is as follows: Bowie, president; Richardson, Ibis; B. Gherardi Davis '41, Narthex; Edward J. P. Zimmerman '41, secretary; Alfred Jaretski '41, treasurer; John F. Brooks '41, advertising manager; Pratt, circulation manager: and Malcolm E. Thomson '41, assistant advertising manager...
...Times June '30 F 9, N. Y. Post June 8 '34 N. Y. Sun Nov. 18 '33 edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort to restore his beloved Middle class in expression and property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program...