Word: wrangler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the Mirror as publisher was Max Annenberg, hardboiled oldtime circulation wrangler for both McCormick and Hearst in Chicago. With his son, Ivan, as circulation manager, he shouldered the Mirror's circulation from 50,000 up to an average of 110,000 daily, 150,000 Saturday, for the six months ending last March. A spring drive boosted the figure close to 200,000 in June, ahead of the Free Press, only other morning paper in Detroit. At the finish last week it was about...
...nine years vice president and general manager of the Tribune. On the walls of Publisher Thomason's office (in the old Market Street plant where the defunct Journal used to be published) hang pictures of Col. McCormick, his managing editor Edward S. Beck, his old time circulation wrangler Max Annenberg, now publisher of the Patterson-McCormick tabloid Detroit Mirror. Sentiment? He and McCormick were classmates in the law school of Northwestern University, law partners for many years thereafter. As a Tribune executive he was reputedly the "highest paid man in the newspaper business'-$275,000 a year...
Texas is here to show off the qualities of the bullish name they bear. Down in the southwest they have showed themselves to be great sportsmen, hard players of great endurance. Why not show the cast a few wrangler's tricks? For Harvard the game will not be a major one, but its importance in the Texas schedule cannot be inconsiderable. A victory over Harvard will be a distinct scalp for the belt of the bovine aggregation, and after coming the breadth of the country to take on the Crimson football men, the ranchers will not fail to offer enough...