Word: woodyards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest chain of weekly newspapers in the land was Ohio s Procter group of 17, assembled by the late Col William Cooper Procter (Ivory Soap) and Charles Bond (Two-Pants Suits) at a cost of $300,000. Last week the Procter chain fell into second place as the three Woodyard brothers of West Virginia marched into New York State. With the help of their good friend Spruille Braden, whose father made his money in Chile copper they raised some $60,000 new capital, acquired control of eight weeklies on Long Island's plump, profitable North Shore, linked them with...
...Brothers Woodyard - William ("Bill''), 39, Edward Douglas ("Ted"), 37, and Henry Chapman, 35-are sons of the late Representative Harry C. Woodyard of West Virginia. In 1920 a business dispute dumped the Spencer, W. Va. Times-Record into Congressman Woodyard's lap. Father Woodyard put his sons to work on the paper. They liked it, made it earn money. Five years later they acquired a second weekly, then a third, fourth, fifth...
Learning as they went along, the Woodyards developed the policy of leaving each paper severely alone editorially, keeping a hawkeye on its cash drawer. All an editor-manager had to do was show a fair profit If he failed, his chiefs, directing affairs from Spencer, might cut him down to a one-man shop, might even erase his paper entirely. Hence, Woodyard papers have paid dividends from the start, earning $3.40 - share on 3,500 shares of common stock in the last six months. And they do not bear the stamp of chain journalism...
There are the Prince's favorite pointers, Dobrynia and Svietlana, gentle aristocrats to the tips of their fine tails. In a nearby Moscow woodyard lives Siedoi, a shaggy grey proletarian with a kind heart and a world of curiosity. His bitch, Sudorga, has the heart of a trollop. It is neither sad nor surprising when Siedoi, already a widely traveled dog, leaves her and roams away. Vaguely he is yearning for the beautiful Svietlana, whom he used to see through the gates of the Prince's mansion and whom he once ... a dizzying memory...