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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tarrytown, N. Y. Chamber of Commerce last week chose an ingenious method to pump money through local business arteries whose circulation has grown sluggish with Depression. Five dollar checks were sold to Chamber members and members of patriotic organizations, each recipient promising to pay an old debt or buy merchandise with his checks within 24 hours. As the checks cannot be banked until after June 30, each one will theoretically change hands 30 times, do $150 worth of business. Tarrytown hopes to wipe $60,000 in old accounts off its books by the end of the month...
Therefore it must have an extremely able publisher. Who? One name appeared last week to be the key to the situation: Frank Ernest Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., Unitarian, Dry. Most famed of 17 Dry Gannett dailies (fourth largest group in the U. S.) is the Brooklyn Eagle. Probably the new paper would be published in the Eagle's plant but in no other way would the Eagle be affected...
...morning last week Publisher Gannett rose very early to open the doors of the Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette himself. It was a gesture of sentiment. Twenty-five years ago he, onetime newsboy, bought a half interest in the old Gazette from the late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...
During the past decade no U. S. families have appeared more sensationally in the nation's newspapers than the McCormicks of Chicago and the Stillmans of New York. Last week, both families made one big story. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman, 52, obtained an amazingly secret divorce (grounds: infidelity) from James Alexander Stillman, 60, onetime president, now director and largest stockholder of National City Bank. A few hours later Mrs. Stillman married, at Pleasantville, N. Y., Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., 32. These were the glittering names which the news conjured...
...will continue to operate it sanatorium for tuberculous professional at Saranac Lake, N. Y. But 8,000 of th nation's jugglers, dancers, animal trainers blues singers, acrobats have lost their metropolitan gathering place...