Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as Editor & Publisher's figures were made public, out spoke the newspapers, protesting variously. The fatherly New York Times, in dignified but sonorous voice, claimed 1928 lineage leadership for itself despite any or all other figures. According to its own figures, the Times won with 30,736,530 lines. Both the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit News conceded that the Times was right, and claimed only 30,512,112 and 30,459,968 lines, respectively...
Media Records, Inc.. stood stoutly by its statisticians and Editor & Publisher explained that the Media figures came from measurements by the officially recognized Advertising Record Co. The figures quoted by the New York Times derived from two sources: those for the first six months of 1928 came from the New York Evening Post's statistical department, those for the last six months from Advertising Record Co., this arrangement having been agreed upon by the Publishers Association of New York City...
...Charles Evans Hughes was paid $75,000 for explaining to the U.S. Supreme Court why more than 5 cents should be charged for a New York subway ride...
...Selfridge's, Harrods admits no superior in quality, in clientele. Head of Harrods is Sir Woodman Burbidge, Bart., C.B.E., member of Royal Automobile, Royal Thames Yacht, Ranelagh clubs, Commandeur de l'Ordre de Leopold II of Belgium. Solemn, dignified, impeccable, Harrods last week published in the New York Times and the London Times a series of testimonial advertisements so ingenious as to command the instant admiration of U.S. advertising men, to whom British advertising is often a source of amusement. The Harrods series was in fact posted on the bulletin board of the J. Walter Thompson Co., potent...
Ownership. The Phelps Dodge combination had its origin in Anson Greene Phelps who was born at Simsbury, Conn., in 1781. He was a saddler by trade but came to New York and set up in the tin plate and metal business. One of his six children, Melissa, married William Earle Dodge who was a dry goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps...